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Crocodile in the Yangtze

  • Documentary

April 12, 2012 (US)

1h 17m

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 w...

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