About Mr. Wong's World | Stone by stone, he reconstructs historic and traditional Shanghai
Mr. Wong is reluctant to commit to just one world. His family lives in Hong Kong, while he himself spends most of his time in Shanghai, a city of superlatives and accelerated living. The expatriate Chinese businessman has returned to the land of his ancestors with several million dollars in capital because he has a vision: Jeoffrey Wong wants to save old China, which in Shanghai is on the verge of being wiped out. Over the past ten years, more than 2,000 skyscrapers have shot up into the sky there. Meanwhile, in the land of post-communist turbo-capitalism, few people care about the pagodas, wooden villas, and temples a few stories below. ------- Chapters ▷ 0:00:00 - Intro ▷ 0:02:12 - Opening credits ▷ 0:03:19 - Why collecting historical architecture? ▷ 0:05:37 - Trouble with the officials ▷ 0:08:48 - How to operate as a Chinese Canadian in China ▷ 0:13:12 - Action: Saving an old house in the middle of the night ▷ 0:18:57 - Engineer Wang Gong and their warehouse ▷ 0:21:04 - Liu Jing Jing, the Chinese journalist
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- Mr. Wong's World | Stone by stone, he reconstructs historic and traditional Shanghai
- Category
- History
- Runtime
- 80 minutes
- Language
- English
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