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- Release, runtime and language
- 1997 · 360 mins · English
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- Directed by
- Sue Williams
- Starring
- Will Lyman, Deng Xiaoping, Mao Zedong, Chiang Kai-shek
This six‑hour PBS documentary offers a candid view of China’s turbulent century, using rare archival footage, scholarly commentary and eyewitness testimony. It chronicles war, foreign invasion, the power struggle between Mao Zedong and Chiang Kai‑shek, Mao’s radical reforms, and Deng Xiaoping’s shift blending communist rule with a market economy.
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