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‘The Chinese Mayor’ Is the First Great Political Documentary of the Year
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‘The Chinese Mayor’ Is the First Great Political Documentary of the Year

Written by Daniel Walber

Jan 28, 2015
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Datong is an overwhelming place. Home to three and a half million people, this historic mining center is now the most polluted city in China. Like many metropolises in the world’s largest nation, it also has a huge housing problem. The scale of these urban challenges is the visual foreground of Hao Zhou’s The Chinese Mayor, the first great political doc…

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