# CHINESE ASSISTANCE DOCUMENTARY from 1946 "BRIDGE TO YINHSI" 72032

reated in 1946 by the American organization "United Service to China", this rare film "Bridge to Yinhsi" presents the chaotic situation in post-WWII China and attempts to bolster the idea that a "new", "industrious" and democratic China is likely to emerge from the on-going Civil War but only with strong American support. The film presents an American town called Junction City and compares it to an enclave of Shanghai called Yinhsi, a place where few Western technologies have penetrated. Yinshi unfortunately lacks electricity, radios, telephones, railroads and even paved roads and running water. Without modern medicine, agricultural techniques and advances in transportation and education, the narrator argues, it is unlikely China will succeed. United China Relief, an organization which brought together several different philanthropic organizations operating in China, was originally created by B.A. Garside during the run-up to WWII. Other organizations joining United China Relief included the American Bureau for Medical Aid to China, the China Emergency Relief Committee, the American Committee for Chinese War Orphans, the Church Committee for China Relief, the American Committee for Chinese Industrial Cooperatives, and the China Aid Council. The original board for this organization included Pearl Buck, William Bullitt, Henry Luce, Robert Sproul, Wendell Willkie, John D. Rockefeller III, Theodore Roosevelt Jr., David O. Selznick, and Thomas Lamont. Eleanor Roosevelt served as…

- Kind: Documentary
- Genres: War, Documentary, Industrial and advertising
- Archive: [Internet Archive](https://archive.org/details/72032BridgeToYinhsi)
- Licence or status: none stated by the archive
- Who can watch: Teens profiles and older (the archive gives no rating; placed by Invisible Network from its collection and subjects)

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