This documentary—available in full on ChinaFile throughout January courtesy of filmmaker Gary Marcuse—follows a group of environmental activists trying to prevent the construction of dams on the Nu (Salween) and the Upper Yangtze (Jinsha) rivers in Yunnan province in southwest China. Waking the Green Tiger uses archival footage of the Mao era mission to “conquer nature” to tell the story of environmental degradation in modern China.