The second of two films by Claude Arthaud and Francois Hebert-Stevens.
Two years ago two young French archaeologists sailed westward along the most famous of Chinese rivers, the Yangtse Kiang, filming en route the dangerous Yangtse gorges. Their final destination was Peking, where the Forbidden City of the Emperors is now a People's Museum, but where, in the fairground behind the market, the traditional Chinese entertainments are still carried on.