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A major series of 12, 60-minute television programmes presenting a penetrating look at post-Mao China. The first programme, REMEMBERING, puts modern China in a historical perspective, and each of the...
The aim of this resource is to encourage students to judge whether or not climate change will impact upon people differently around the world. Footage from the Arctic, Greenland, Iceland, Africa, the Alps,...
In 1972, during Mao Zedong’s Cultural Revolution, Michelangelo Antonioni was invited by the People’s Republic of China to direct a documentary about the New China. His eight-week travels with a crew...
A 1981 episode of The World About Us that documents the history of political struggle between Tibet and China through archival film shot by western travellers in the early part of the century. Shows daily...
A dramatic documentary that looks at the astonishing recent political history of Tibet. Spending over ten years making the film, director Tom Peosay presents a concise, educational chronology that tracks the...
Just a few sentences in a Japanese history textbook in 2005 sparked the biggest protests China had seen since 1989. The subject of those sentences the Nanjing Massacre occurred during World War II, but...
Shows the pattern of life on a rice farm in Taiwan. Mrs Li, whose husband is a salaried factory worker, participates fully in farming and community activities in addition to her role in supervising the...
Lin Xian in north-central China is a 20 mile square area in which one out of four people die of cancer of the oesophagus - more than 100 times the normal rate. Shows how a team of scientists try to find the...
A multimedia exploration of the experiences of explorers who discovered the last of the forgotten civilisations: Serindia, the sacred land of Buddhism. Once the heart of a flourishing silk trade, it was...
The Three Gorges Dam, the largest engineering project since the Great Wall and hotly contested symbol of the Chinese economic miracle, provides the epic and unsettling backdrop for UP THE YANGTZE, a dramatic...
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