• Director(s):

    SCHUMACHER (J. Michael)

  • Producer(s):

    ARTE GEIE, MEDIEN KONTOR Movie GMBH

  • Territories:

    Worldwide.

  • Production year:

    2014

  • Language(s):

    German, English, Spanish, French

  • Rights:

    TV, DVD, NON-THEATRICAL, INTERNET, VOD

Mandalay, the former capital of Myanmar, is the center of the jade market. More than 10,000 traders and polishers make their living from the jade market, doing business with the “kidney stones”.

Trade is increasingly coming under Chinese control. Nowhere else is jade as highly prized as in China, where it has had mystical significance as a medicine for about 8,000 years. Chinese companies have government licenses giving them extensive rights to run gigantic open-pit mining projects for mining jade. These Chinese companies can also dictate prices. Now small local dealers like young Ko Min and his family are having difficulty obtaining jade of good quality to sell at acceptable prices.

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