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The Hairy Bikers Dave Myers and Si King take us to New Year's Eve in Beijing, following an extraordinary day in China's capital city. They experience life in the mega-city on this special day, from preparationsat the bell tower, which can only ever ring on the stroke of midnight on New Year's Eve, to a Beijing family, the Zhangs, who are getting ready for the biggest family get-together of the year. The whole city comes to a halt as everyone gathers...
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Despite the fact that U.S. laws strictly forbid trade in prison labor products, this program shows how China tricks the West into buying hundreds of millions of dollars of goods produced in its system of 2,000 labor camps, the Laogai. Harry Wu, a Chinese dissident who was released after 19 years in the Laogai, returns to China with a video camera; through prison interviews and undercover footage of factories in the camps, Wu discloses the imprisonment,...
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How has China transformed, inside 30 years, from developing nation to the world's next largest economy after the USA? Includes interviews with historians, eye-witnesses and party officials. This program provides an overview of Chinese history, Chinese industrial development, and China in the 20th century.
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For some time now, the establishment of the World Bank and IMF has had a Chinese counterpart: AIIB, which China intends to use to finance a huge infrastructure project to connect Asia and Europa, a New Silk Route. This new international financial institution forces Europe to take a side. The UK decided, against the urgent advice from the United States, to become a member, and also the Netherlands has joined the Chinese initiative. According to China...
11) Xi Jinping
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Televised confessions, human rights defenders detained, and critics of the Party going missing in Hong Kong and abroad. What does it all say about China's president and general secretary of the ruling Communist Party, Xi Jinping? Mr. Xi has been called "Xi Dada" by his citizens. Panelists Wang Feng, Mike Chinoy, and Willy Lam discuss Xi Jinping's anti-corruption campaign, power consolidation, and diplomacy on this episode of On China with Kristie...
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Her fashion choices put Chinese design firmly on the map. Peng Liyuan, the wife of Chinese President Xi Jinping, may be promoting Chinese fashion by wearing it, but when it comes to developing modern Chinese style, the industry is forging ahead on its own. China's designers are drawing their inspiration from thousands of years of history and refitting it for modern-day life. But they're also struggling to gain the training and experience to create...
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It is only now, on the roof of the world, in the bareness of the Tibetan plateau, that we observe how these adventurers survive the challenges imposed by this long and difficult road. We taste their meals prepared over open log- fires with what is available, visit their caravanserais and share their rest in the open sky. From the sub-tropical South, it is a journey made of twelve long months: six to reach our goal Lhasa, and six for the return. Some...
15) China
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We begin our journey along the ancient Silk Road where it all began: in mulberry tree orchards of the Hangzhou province a short drive to the southwest of Shanghai. Around 5,000 years ago, farmers there discovered that the cocoons woven from silkworms produced expensive fabric. Sumnima Udas discovers the vibrant e-commerce trade, discusses modernization with silk manufacturers, and visits Xi'an on this episode of The Silk Road: Past, Present, Future....
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Called the "father of modern Chinese painting", Xu Beihong's works were epic and monumental. He was among the first Chinese artists in the 20th Century to challenge conventional artistic themes, calling for the creation of works that reflected modern China. Beyond oil painting, he was a master of traditional Chinese painting, sketches, calligraphy, even poetry. He was the most internationally influential Chinese artist of the past century, and a pioneer...
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In China, they're called the "tigers and flies," the powerful leaders and lowly officials all targeted by China's corruption crackdown. Less than a year into his term, President Xi Jinping has made fighting graft one of his priorities, vowing to punish every corrupt official, and to make no exceptions. And under his leadership, Beijing has even made a point of addressing seemingly trivial excess, limiting banquets to "four courses and one soup" and...
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Lin Fengmian came from a poor family. As a youth, he never dreamed he would visit the artistic capitals of Europe, or return to China on a mission to fuse Western and Easternstyles of painting. One day, eight year-old Lin Fengmian was given a few coins. Buying a lottery ticket, he won. He used most of the winnings to help his family. He used some to attend art school, changing his destiny. His works are done in the Western style, yet display more...
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This World tells the story of White Horse Village, a tiny farming community deep in rural China. A decade ago, it became part of the biggest urbanisation project in human history, as the Chinese government decided to take half a billion farmers and turn them into city-dwelling consumers. It is a project with a speed and scale unimaginable anywhere else on Earth. In just ten years, the Chinese Government plan to build thousands of new cities, a new...
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