History as a mirror : Using China's past to shape its future /
This program seeks to understand how the Chinese government, arguably the world's most elaborate and long-lived bureaucracy, has managed to balance the tension between controlling its people and keeping them contented enough to sustain national stability. Events unfolding at the village level i...
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| Format: | Video DVD |
| Language: | English |
| Language Notes: | Parts in Chinese with English voiceovers. |
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Princeton, NJ :
Films for the Humanities & Sciences,
[2004]
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| Series: | China : the dragon's ascent.
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| Summary: | This program seeks to understand how the Chinese government, arguably the world's most elaborate and long-lived bureaucracy, has managed to balance the tension between controlling its people and keeping them contented enough to sustain national stability. Events unfolding at the village level in Sichuan Province demonstrate the dynamics of an evolving system of rule modeled on Marxism and informed by the legacies of Qin Shihuangdi and Confucius. Can the centralized command and control system first established so long ago continue to sustain China as it moves toward a market-style economy? |
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| Item Description: | Videodisc release of a 2001[?] television production. "[A] collaboration between the Needham Research Institute at Cambridge University and the Chinese Academy of Sciences"--Container. Videorecording. |
| Physical Description: | 1 videodisc (58 min.) : sound, color with black and white sequences ; 4 3/4 in. |
| Format: | DVD-R; this disc is a recorded DVD and may not play on all DVD players or drives. |
| Production Credits: | Photography, Mike Shrimpton ; music by Richard Harvey, Steve Baker ; editor, Scott McEwing. |