As political barriers and physical frontiers come tumbling down all over the world, one country remains mysterious and forbidden.
China - home to one third of the world's people - has fascinated Westerners for centuries.
The history of recent decades has remained a closely guarded secret - until now. China Rising is a unique achievement in itself: no other Western production team has been allowed to cover the six decades from 1925 from within China itself.

This remarkable series of three one-hour films delves deeply behind the Bamboo Curtain to tell one of the greatest stories of the twentieth century. Rare archive film reveals a China which will amaze and delight and help to explain the huge changes in this vast country over six turbulent decades. This extensive footage provides a fitting back-drop for the real story of China, told by the people themselves. Potent testimony and eye-witness accounts of major events and ordinary life bring the country and it's history to vibrant life.

From the glamorous Shanghai of the 1920's, birthplace of the Chinese Communist Party to the rural north of Yanan where the new intellectuals determined the political future of China and on to Guangzhou with the bloody dramas of the cultural revolution and the quest for a modern democracy.

As political barriers and physical frontiers come tumbling down all over the world, one country remains mysterious and forbidden.
China - home to one third of the world's people - has fascinated Westerners for centuries.
The history of recent decades has remained a closely guarded secret - until now. China Rising is a unique achievement in itself: no other Western production team has been allowed to cover the six decades from 1925 from within China itself.

This remarkable series of three one-hour films delves deeply behind the Bamboo Curtain to tell one of the greatest stories of the twentieth century. Rare archive film reveals a China which will amaze and delight and help to explain the huge changes in this vast country over six turbulent decades. This extensive footage provides a fitting back-drop for the real story of China, told by the people themselves. Potent testimony and eye-witness accounts of major events and ordinary life bring the country and it's history to vibrant life.

From the glamorous Shanghai of the 1920's, birthplace of the Chinese Communist Party to the rural north of Yanan where the new intellectuals determined the political future of China and on to Guangzhou with the bloody dramas of the cultural revolution and the quest for a modern democracy.

As political barriers and physical frontiers come tumbling down all over the world, one country remains mysterious and forbidden.
China - home to one third of the world's people - has fascinated Westerners for centuries.
The history of recent decades has remained a closely guarded secret - until now. China Rising is a unique achievement in itself: no other Western production team has been allowed to cover the six decades from 1925 from within China itself.

This remarkable series of three one-hour films delves deeply behind the Bamboo Curtain to tell one of the greatest stories of the twentieth century. Rare archive film reveals a China which will amaze and delight and help to explain the huge changes in this vast country over six turbulent decades. This extensive footage provides a fitting back-drop for the real story of China, told by the people themselves. Potent testimony and eye-witness accounts of major events and ordinary life bring the country and it's history to vibrant life.

From the glamorous Shanghai of the 1920's, birthplace of the Chinese Communist Party to the rural north of Yanan where the new intellectuals determined the political future of China and on to Guangzhou with the bloody dramas of the cultural revolution and the quest for a modern democracy.