History

China: The Miraculous Transformation

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This film reveals how Mao’s loyal lieutenant, the diminutive Deng Xiaoping, used ancient wisdom and 14th-Century systems to set China on the road to becoming a superpower.

It required someone strong to rescue China from the chaos of the Cultural Revolution. This film reveals how Deng Xiaoping, a strategic genius and the ultimate bureaucrat, used ancient wisdom and 14th-Century systems to set China on the road to becoming a superpower.

Through revealing interviews with leading Chinese scholars and pioneers and unique access to personal experiences of ordinary Chinese citizens, we reveal how Xiaopeng dragged 200 million people into the modern world. But, in one regard he was a lot like Mao Zedong - he maintained the hardline rule of the Communist Party.


He was responsible for the Tiananmen Square massacre and the destructive and murderous One-Child Policy. But there is no doubt that without his economic reforms, China would not have the superpower status it enjoys today.

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Programme Details

DURATION
1 x 60'/90'
BROADCASTERS
Discovery Channel
AVAILABLE IN
HD
ORIGINAL LANGUAGE
English