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Jeudi, mai 6th, 2010 |
Watch China: A Century of Revolution Movie Online.
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The basic Amazon description of this DVD is confusing — and that’s unfortunate because this is a terrific selection of three of Susan Williams’ four PBS documentaries on China.
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Contained in this set are “China in Revolution,” shown on PBS in 1989; “The Mao Years,” shown in 1994 — and “Born Under the Red Flag,” aired in 1997. However, if you’re a PBS-and-China watcher, you should know that Williams’ more recent documentary, “China in the Red,” is not in this set. Personally, as a longtime journalist myself, I don’t think this set suffers from its abrupt end with the decline of Deng Xiaoping. Williams’ 2003 film, “China in the Red,” examined the lives of a handful of Chinese workers — but China is evolving so rapidly that I would think Susan Williams herself would want to make a completely different “Part 4″ to her series in 2008 than she did six years ago when she was assembling “China in the Red.”
Nevertheless — this set is not, as the cover claims, “Definitive,” about China. After six hours, the history comes to a screeching halt with Deng’s decline. Plus, China watchers are likely to quibble over a whole series of points in the course of the six hours. For instance, the U.S. decision to establish full diplomatic ties with Beijing in the late 1970s is presented with a former U.S. ambassador saying, “All the Chinese were happy.” Well, that certainly wasn’t the case with the ethnic Chinese living in Taiwan. They were stunned and disgusted at that news. Perhaps Williams could have at least touched on that point.
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Also — if you watch this documentary at the same time you view “Manufactured Landscapes,” a much more contemporary visual meditation on industrial development in China, your head will snap around at Williams’ footage of workers in newer factories. She presents this as essentially good news for smiling workers. “Manufactured Landscapes” is an absolutely haunting vision of those same workers.
Having said all of that — in an effort to clarify what this six-hour series is (and what it is not) — my strong recommendation is: Terrific. Five stars. I’ve collected all sorts of books, films and other media about Asia — especially about China — and I can’t find anything else that’s this good and this encyclopedic in its documentary footage.
Americans who want to know more about China — and can hardly put current news into perspective, because we simply don’t know the background — buy a copy of this set, watch it with a small group and find out about a global power that we’re all going to know a whole lot more about in the years ahead.
I bought this set for my husband, who has been doing a lot of business in China recently. He wanted to understand the background of the people he is getting to know; what motivates them and why; how their history affects their outlook and attitudes. China: A Century of Revolution definitely fit the bill! It’s fascinating - lots of descriptions of events by people who were there when they happened help the viewer understand why China’s relatively recent history has unfolded the way it has. You get the opportunity to hear many sides of each story: both leaders and common soldiers on both Communist and Nationalist sides; common people living in villages whose daily lives were impacted by change, etc. We would recommend this DVD set as a good overview for Americans looking for a basic understanding of twentieth-century Chinese history.
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