Wild China 1. DVD 2008 Vad Kína 1. DVD / BBC Nature Documentary Series / Narrated by Bernard Hill, David Suzuki / Executive producer: Brian Leith

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REGION 2 PAL DVD

AUDIO: English 2.0, English 5.1, Hungarian 2.0

Total Runtime: 119 minutes

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English Summary:

Wild China is a six-part nature documentary series on the natural history of China, co-produced by the BBC Natural History Unit and China Central Television (CCTV) and filmed in high-definition (HD). It was screened in the UK on BBC Two from 11 May to 5 June 2008. The English narration was provided by Bernard Hill and the series produced by Phil Chapman for the BBC and Gao Xiaoping for CCTV. The Chinese version was broadcast under the title Beautiful China. In Canada, it was broadcast on CBC as part of the series The Nature Of Things narrated by David Suzuki. Wild China was broadcast in Australia on ABC1 and ABC HD each Sunday at 7:30pm from 18 May 2008.

The musical score to accompany the series was composed by Barnaby Taylor and was performed by Cheng Yu and the UK Chinese Ensemble.

The series was billed as the culmination of the BBC Natural History Unit's "Continents" programmes, a long-running strand of blue-chip wildlife documentaries which surveyed the natural history of each of the world's major land areas. It was preceded by Wild Caribbean in 2007, but with the broadcast of South Pacific in 2009 the BBC signalled a continuation of the strand.

Episodes on DISCS:

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1  "Heart of the Dragon"

The first programme in the series concentrates on South China, where the climate and terrain is ideal for rice cultivation. The terraced paddy fields of Yuanyang County plunge 2000 metres down steep hillsides to the Red River valley, and are some of the oldest man-made structures in China. In a Miao household in Guizhou province, the arrival of red-rumped swallows signals the time for planting. Other creatures which benefit from the rice monoculture include little egrets and Chinese pond herons. Of the hundreds of caves beneath the limestone hills of this karst region, few have been explored. At Zhongdong, an entire community, including a school, lives in the shelter of a cave. Francois' langurs, a rare primate, use their rock-climbing skills to enter caves at night for protection. Other cave dwellers include swifts and Rickett’s mouse eared bats, filmed for the first time catching fish in the dark. Freshwater creatures are an important resource for the people of South China. The Li River cormorant fishermen now only practice their art for tourists, but at Caohai Lake, dragonfly nymphs are a unique and valuable harvest. Some delicacies, such as freshwater turtles, are vanishingly rare. Chinese alligators only survive in Anhui province thanks to dedicated conservation efforts. A troop of Huangshan macaques is shown retreating to the safety of the treetops when a venomous Chinese moccasin is spotted. After the autumn rice harvest, migratory birds including tundra swans and Siberian cranes gather at Poyang Lake

2  "Shangri-La"

This episode profiles the rich biodiversity of south-western Yunnan province. Forming the eastern boundary of the Himalaya, the Hengduan Mountains have buckled into a series of parallel ridges running north-south. The Nujiang River is one of a succession of deep gorges that carve their way through the mountains. In summer, monsoon rainclouds from the Indian Ocean are funnelled up the valleys, creating a unique climate in which species from the tropics can flourish at a more northerly latitude. Yunnan’s 18,000 plant species, of which 3,000 are found nowhere else, attracted Western botanists and explorers such as Joseph Rock. In the snowbound forests surrounding the pilgrimage site of Kawakarpo (6740 m), rare Yunnan snub-nosed monkeys are filmed feeding on lichen. In the Gaoligong Mountains, tropical and alpine plants grow side by side. Birdlife filmed here includes sunbirds feeding on epiphytes and the courtship display of a Temminck's tragopan. The fruiting trees attract bear macaques and black giant squirrels, whilst China’s 250 remaining wild Asian elephants forage below. A lesser bamboo bat colony is filmed at their roost inside a single stem; each bat is the size of a bumblebee. A giant elephant yam flower is pollinated by carrion beetles at night. Black crested gibbons are filmed in the forests of Wuliangshan. The people of Yunnan include the Dai, Hani and Jino tribes, each of whom regard the forests as sacred and harvest them sustainably, but modern times are bringing new threats such as rubber plantations and tourism.

Hungarian Summary:

Évszázadnyi bezárkózottság után, Kína most először nyílik meg a világ felé. Ez a mérföldkőnek számító sorozat betekintést nyújt Földünk legrejtélyesebb országába, és felfedi e bámulatosan összetett világ titkait. A Himalája szikrázó csúcsai – a világ legmagasabb hegylánca – tornyosulnak a kies, Tibeti fennsík fölé. Hatalmas sivatagok a legforróbbtól a leghidegebbig. Folyók, melyek meredek hasadékok között száguldanak, erdőkkel övezett vízesésekig. Smaragdzöld rizsföldek alkotnak ragyogó mintákat a cukorsüveg formájú hegyek csoportjai között. Darvak seregei szállnak modern városokkal övezett tengerpartok felett. Gőzölgő dzsungelek nyújtanak menedéket vad elefántoknak, színpompás madaraknak és furcsa trópusi virágoknak. Jöjjön velünk egy elképesztő utazásra lélegzetelállító tájakon át, a Himalája csúcsaitól a kopár sztyeppékig, a sark közeli fagyoktól a trópusi szigetekig! Nagy felbontású kamerák rögzítették a titokzatos és csodálatos, vad és ritka lényeket, valamint a legkülönbözőbb társadalmi formákban élő népcsoportok életét. 

A sorozatból megismerhetjük számos elképesztő és elkápráztató, ritka és gyönyörű teremtményét Kínának, ami a Himalája fehérlő csúcsaitól forró és jéghideg sivatagon át, forró és fülledt dzsungelig mindent felvonultat, ami csak földrajzilag lehetséges.

EPIZÓDOK:

DVD 1 :

A Sárkány szíve / Heart of the Dragon

A földi paradicsom  / Shangri-la