Crocodile in the Yangtze
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Crocodile in the Yangtze follows China's first Internet entrepreneur and former English teacher, Jack Ma, as he battles US giant eBay on the way to building China's first global Internet company, Alibaba Group. An independent memoir written, directed and produced by an American who worked in Ma's company for eight years, Crocodile in the Yangtze captures the emotional ups and downs of life in a Chinese Internet startup at a time when the Internet brought China face-to-face with the West. Crocodile in the Yangtze draws on 200 hours of archival footage filmed by over 35 sources between 1995 and 2009. The film presents a strikingly candid portrait of Ma and his company, told from the point of view of an “American fly on a Chinese wall” who witnessed the successes and the mistakes Alibaba encountered as it grew from a small apartment into a global company employing 16,000 staff.
Status: Released
Released Date: 2012-04-12
Runtime: 77 mins
Director: Porter Erisman
Spoken language: 普通话, English
Genres: Documentary
Original title: Crocodile in the Yangtze
Production Companies: Taluswood Films, Purple Reel Productions
Production Countries: China, United States of America
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