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- Brat Academy
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People, Places & Culture
Enter the world of China’s tough boot camp schools, designed to turn around children who display problem behaviour.
- China Circus
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People, Places & Culture
At China’s Wuqiao School of Acrobatic Arts, children as young as seven come to live and breathe acrobatics. They are there because they have raw...
- China Rising
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History
From the glamorous Shanghai of the 1920’s to the birth of the Chinese Communist Party in the north and to the bloody dramas of the Cultural Revo...
- China's Last Elephants
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Nature & Wildlife
250 elephants remain in China. We follow the woman changing local opinion and the man filming them before they disappear.
- China's Raging Sands
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Nature & Wildlife
The biggest sandstorms in China’s history are a blight on Beijing life, as well as wreaking havoc in the countryside.
- Cinema Asia
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People, Places & Culture
In Asia, we find some of the world’s biggest film industries: India, Korea, Taiwan, Iran and China, nipping closely at Hollywood’s heels. ...
- Crossings: Jackie Chan
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People, Places & Culture
The story of Chan’s journey from his days as an acrobat in Beijing to his emergence as a Hollywood action superstar.
- Crossings: John Woo
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People, Places & Culture
A portrait of John Woo, the most successful Asian director to hit Hollywood, known for his balletic shoot-outs.
- Cutting Through
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People, Places & Culture
Meet an extraordinary peasant woman in rural China who has become a master of the ancient Chinese art of paper-cutting.
- Emperor of the Seas
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History
In 1405, 87 years before Christopher Columbus landed in America, a Muslim eunuch, Admiral Zheng He, led a fleet of 30,000 sailors on a voyage half way...
- Hong Kong Garrison - The Making of a Soldier
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People, Places & Culture
How the People’s Liberation Army in China find out what it takes to become a member of Hong Kong’s defence force.
- Inside Kung Fu Inc
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People, Places & Culture
Rare access allows us to follow the secretive lives of the monks of the Shaolin Temple and their ancient rituals.
- Jade Hunters of China
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People, Places & Culture
Enterprise meets tradition as Chinese miners search for jade. If they are lucky they get rich, but if they are unlucky they may die.
- Man Made Marvels Asia II
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Science & Technology
Asia: the world’s fastest growing industrial powerhouse; a centre of innovation and home to ground-breaking engineering projects.From Singapore to M...
- Megastructures
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Science & Technology
As China roars back into world power status in the 21st Century, it’s proclaiming its growth and economic success in steel and concrete, glass a...
- New Beijing: Reinventing a City
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People, Places & Culture
As China emerges as an economic powerhouse we explore the effects of reconstruction on the cultural heart of Beijing.
- Old Yang seeks bride
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People, Places & Culture
Old Yang is tired of living alone and will try anything to find a wife, but soon catches more than he can handle.
- Panda Nursery
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Nature & Wildlife
The highs and lows of panda cubs’ first six months as they are reared with the intention of release into the wild.
- Red Trousers
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People, Places & Culture
Making a Kung Fu movie is not for the faint-hearted. The stuntmen get seriously hurt but it’s all in a day’s work.
- Shanghai Opera Dreams
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People, Places & Culture
An engrossing documentary by Jiang Ning, who follows aspiring opera singers competing to enter China’s top opera school.
- Shaolin: Journey to the West
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People, Places & Culture
For six young Buddhist monks, it’s the journey of a lifetime, going from China to Germany to bring Shaolin to Europe.
- Space Hero - China's First Man in Space
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Science & Technology
We go behind the closed doors of China’s Space City to show the astronaut candidates’ rigorous training and testing regime. So great was the secre...
- The Diva Mummy
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History
In the early 1970s construction workers near Changsha in China unearthed the tomb of aristocrat Xin Zhui. The tomb was filled with precious and wonder...
- Wild Horses - Return to China
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Nature & Wildlife
The wild horses of XinJiang’s plains have returned to their ancient home. This is the story of their first year back.
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