China: A Century of Revolution (1997)
China: A Century of Revolution (1997)
CHINA: A CENTURY OF REVOLUTION is a six-hour tour de force journey through the country's most tumultuous period. First televised on PBS, this award-winning documentary series presents an astonishingly candid view of a once-secret nation with rare archival footage, insightful historical commentary and stunning eyewitness accounts from citizens who struggled through China's most decisive century. CHINA IN REVOLUTION charts the country's most violent era where decades of civil war and foreign invasions led to the bloody battle for power between Mao Zedong and Chiang Kai-shek. THE MAO YEARS examines the turbulent era of Mao's attempts to forge a "new China" from the war-ravaged and poverty-stricken nation. Mao's death begins BORN UNDER THE RED FLAG, which follows the country's new leadership of Deng Xiaoping and its unlikely transformation into an extraordinary hybrid of communist-centralized politics with an ever-expanding free market economy.

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Will Lyman Will Lyman As: Narrator
Deng Xiaoping Deng Xiaoping As: Himself (archive footage)
Mao Zedong Mao Zedong As: Himself (archive footage)
Chiang Kai-shek Chiang Kai-shek As: Himself (archive footage)
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CHINA: A CENTURY OF REVOLUTION is a six-hour tour de force journey through the country's most tumultuous period. First televised on PBS, this award-winning documentary series presents an astonishingly candid view of a once-secret nation with rare archival footage, insightful historical commentary and stunning eyewitness accounts from citizens who struggled through China's most decisive century. CHINA IN REVOLUTION charts the country's most violent era where decades of civil war and foreign invasions led to the bloody battle for power between Mao Zedong and Chiang Kai-shek. THE MAO YEARS examines the turbulent era of Mao's attempts to forge a "new China" from the war-ravaged and poverty-stricken nation. Mao's death begins BORN UNDER THE RED FLAG, which follows the country's new leadership of Deng Xiaoping and its unlikely transformation into an extraordinary hybrid of communist-centralized politics with an ever-expanding free market economy.


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Genres: Documentary

Language: 广州话 / 廣州話, 普通话, English

Release Date: 20 September 1997

Country: US

Runtime: 360m

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Company: Ambrica Productions

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Will Lyman

Will Lyman

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Deng Xiaoping

Deng Xiaoping

Himself (archive footage)

Mao Zedong

Mao Zedong

Himself (archive footage)

Chiang Kai-shek

Chiang Kai-shek

Himself (archive footage)

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