CHINA: A CENTURY OF REVOLUTION is a six-hour tour de force journey through the country's most tumultuous period. First televised on PBS, this award-winning documentary series presents an astonishingly candid view of a once-secret nation with rare archival footage, insightful historical commentary and stunning eyewitness accounts from citizens who struggled through China's most decisive century. CHINA IN REVOLUTION charts the country's most violent era where decades of civil war and foreign invasions led to the bloody battle for power between Mao Zedong and Chiang Kai-shek. THE MAO YEARS examines the turbulent era of Mao's attempts to forge a "new China" from the war-ravaged and poverty-stricken nation. Mao's death begins BORN UNDER THE RED FLAG, which follows the country's new leadership of Deng Xiaoping and its unlikely transformation into an extraordinary hybrid of communist-centralized politics with an ever-expanding free market economy.
China in Revolution: 1911-1949

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The collapse of China's imperial dynasty in 1911 led to a tumultuous era, marked by the newly formed republic's struggle to establish its authority amidst Japanese aggression and internal turmoil.

The Mao Years: 1949-1976

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The epic story of China's rise to economic and political dominance unfolds in this second installment of a trilogy, covering a pivotal 27-year period from 1949 to 1976.

China: Born Under the Red Flag

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Deng Xiaoping's rise to power in post-Mao China sparked a major economic transformation, accompanied by a period of intense political repression.

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