Shi Cheng: The City Flooded by Human Choice
In short: Shi Cheng, the historic 'Lion City,' was purposely flooded in 1959 to create the Xin’an Dam, only to be rediscovered underwater in 2001.
A 1:13 short film in the series “Lost Cities”.
Sources used in this film: BBC, “China’s Atlantis of the East”.
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