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Reinventing China

20231 Season52m episodes7.5

Documentary, War & Politics

TMDB7.5

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Runtime: 52m episodes
Genre: Documentary
Origin: BE

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China's history of the last 200 years seems like a boomerang, returning to the West what it once unleashed. The series reveals how devastating the struggles for identity and power have been for the population since the fall of the "Middle Kingdom," and how closely these tragedies are intertwined with our own. Great hopes were placed in a wide variety of visions for the future—and each time, bitter disappointment ensued. From the decline of the empire to its resurgence as a superpower, China's history is both a dream and a nightmare, in which human life is of little value.

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Director: Karim Miské, Ilana Navaro
Writing: Karim Miské, Ilana Navaro, Pierre Singaravélou
Status: Ended
First aired: May 23, 2023
Network: PTS, ARTE
Studio: Program 33, ARTE

Time to finish

3 hrs

3 episodes. About 1 week at an hour a night.

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Cast

Karim Miské

Narrateur

Timothy brook

Intervenante

Anne Cheng

Intervenante

Yang-wen zheng

Intervenante

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SERIES

Reinventing China

20231 Season52m episodes7.5

Documentary, War & Politics

TMDB7.5

Votes2

Your rating

Runtime: 52m episodes
Genre: Documentary
Origin: BE

About

Where to watch

Region

Stream

PBS

BBC Select Apple Tv channel

PBS Documentaries Amazon Channel

Free

Buy

Availability from JustWatch via TMDB.

Episodes

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E1 · Airs May 23, 2023 · 54m · ★ 8.0
The Fall of a Dynasty (1839–1907)
At the beginning of the 19th century, China, considering itself the most spiritually advanced country on the planet, barred those it deemed "barbarians"—Indians, Arabs, or Europeans—from entering its empire. From Canton and Macau, its only two international ports, cargoes of tea, porcelain, and silk, prized by Westerners, were exported. The Manchu Qing dynasty, in power for two centuries, ruled unchallenged over 400 million subjects belonging to the Han ethnic group.
E2 · Airs May 23, 2023 · 55m · ★ 7.0
Zerrissenes Land (1907 - 1965)
One China? With the end of the monarchy, the cards were reshuffled. However, the 1911 revolution turned into a nightmare. Instead of Sun Yat-sen's vision of democracy and progress, China descended into chaos and became a laboratory for a wide variety of utopias. Chiang Kai-shek's conservative nationalism cracked down hard on the revolutionaries...
E3 · Airs May 23, 2023 · 53m · ★ 8.5
Made in China (1966–2021)
Mao's Cultural Revolution was intended to secure his power and claimed millions of victims. In the West, the "Great Helmsman" is romanticized by many on the left. But instead of socialist ideals, it is ultimately China's economy and its opening to the West that allow the country to rise to superpower status once again. The result is increasing prosperity and turbo-capitalism.

Details

Director: Karim Miské, Ilana Navaro
Writing: Karim Miské, Ilana Navaro, Pierre Singaravélou
Status: Ended
First aired: May 23, 2023
Network: PTS, ARTE
Studio: Program 33, ARTE

Time to finish

3 hrs

3 episodes. About 1 week at an hour a night.

View on IMDb ↗

Cast

Karim Miské

Narrateur

Timothy brook

Intervenante

Anne Cheng

Intervenante

Yang-wen zheng

Intervenante

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