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US Says No Military Aid to Formosa

Date released

16 Jan 1950

Series name

British Paramount News

Issue no

1970

NoS ID

042143

Story no

4 / 5

Secretary of State declares there will be no American occupation of threatened island. Madame Chiang Kai Shek fails to secure US military help. Piping First pictures of communist leader Mao Tse Tung...

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Mao: Long March to Power (1979 Film, Video)

Subject

History

Distribution

Film (16mm)

Concentrates on pre-1949 China. Footage of rice planting by hand, the development of western strongholds in the port cities, street fighting, Japanese invasion, street executions, the CCP in Yenan with shots...

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Mao: Organised Chaos (1978)

Subject

History

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 0 NTSC, 45 minutes), $7.49

Both Episodes Of The 1978 Portraits Of Power television series produced by the New York Times on the life and history of Mao Tse Tung. Concentrates on Mao after he became the effective ruler of China in...

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China: The Long March - Historic 1986 TV Expedition (2012)

Subject

Geography

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 0 NTSC, 48 minutes), $7.49

China was only just opening up to the west when this Sydney Australia TV crew were given access, uprecedented to foreigners until that date, to document, film and photograph the entire epic 8,000 mile length...

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Chung Kuo (1972)

aka: China

Director

Michelangelo Antonioni

Subject

Film studies; Geography; History; Politics & government; Social Studies

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 0 PAL, 208 minutes), £7.99

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...

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China: A Century of Revolution (3 Parts) (1989)

Subject

History; Politics & government

Distribution

Sale, VHS (NTSC, 3 x 120 minutes), $199.00 (all 3 partw)

Ten years in the making, this six-hour, three-part documentary series on the history of 20th century China uses archive footage and first-hand interviews to document the epic struggle of the Chinese people...

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Half the Sky (1995 Video)

Director

Sun Shuyun

Subject

Women’s studies

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 52 min., 1999 sale: £30.00 (+VAT inc. p&p) (UK education)

The stories of four generations of women in one family, whose lives illustrate the dramatic changes in the lives of Chinese women over the past half century. Aims to examine the truth of Mao Zedong’s...

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China: Triumph and Turmoil (2012)

Subject

Economics; Geography; History; Politics & government

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 180 minutes), £19.99

Three part documentary series in which Niall Ferguson explores China’s position as an emerging economic superpower, and its subsequent relationship with the rest of the world. He travels through China...

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Barefoot Doctors of Rural China (1975 Film)

Director

Diane Li

Subject

Medical sciences

Distribution

Film (16mm)

An overview of Chinese medical care before 1976. Concentrates on rural China and demonstrates the effect of Mao Zedong’s June 1965 directive ‘in medical care put the emphasis on the countryside’....

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China: In the Shadow of Mr. Kong

Subject

History; Politics & government

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 0 PAL, 250 minutes), £25.00

This five part series considers the history of China in the light of the precepts of Confucius - or Mr Kong - who advised "Treat others as you would have them treat you." If the rulers are honourable and...

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