Travel from the Silk Road to the Yellow Sea with host Michael Wood as he explores the history of the world’s newest superpower. A thrilling and moving epic of the world’s oldest continuous state with the landscapes, peoples, and stories that made today’s China.
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Michael Wood visits the last surviving communist outpost in today's China.
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Professor Zheng Yangwen tells Michael about the impact of the opium trade in China.
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Under the Qing Dynasty Muslim culture had a new vitality – including all women’s mosques.
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Michael Wood describes the first meeting of the Chinese Communist Party in Shanghai 1921.
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Michael Wood watches an opera in the snow, to celebrate Grandma’s 90th birthday!
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Qiu Jin was the tragic star of the failed revolution of 1907, against the Qing Dynasty.
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Michael Wood visits a Chinese Premier League soccer game seeking the origin of "Kickball."