China: The Making of a Nation
20261 Season60m episodes8.0
Documentary
- Runtime
- 60m episodes
- Genre
- Documentary
- Origin
- FR
About
China: The Making of a Nation is the story of the painful transformation of the vast Qing Empire into the Chinese nation after the 1911 revolution. Spanning more than a century up to the Xi Jinping era, the story pits the two pivotal leaders of this transformation against each other: Chiang Kai-shek, leader of the Republic of China for 47 years, and Mao Zedong, who rose from ‘red bandit’ to master of the mainland in 1949. Sworn enemies, they fought a merciless battle: first military, then diplomatic, and finally, beyond their deaths, in the conflicting memories of the Taiwanese and the Chinese of the People's Republic. Beyond their fierce hatred, the two tyrants also had much in common: a certain vision of Chinese territory and the greatness of China, the desire to regain the country's sovereignty and the quest for a Chinese identity in a nation that also includes Tibetans, Uighurs, Mongols... and a certain ability to rewrite history.
Where to watch
Not available to stream in United States yet.
Details
- Director
- Anne Loussouarn
- Writing
- Anne Loussouarn, Anne Loussouarn
- Status
- Ended
- First aired
- Feb 10, 2026
- Network
- ARTE
- Studio
- O2B Films, ARTE
Time to finish
2 hrs
2 episodes. About 1 week at an hour a night.
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