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China: Triumph and Turmoil

Name: China: Triumph and Turmoil
Released: 2012

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2012-2012
1 Season
Documentary

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How does something stay together when the laws of history tell us it should fall apart? The country's new billionaires, survivors of Chairman Mao's regime and young nationalists talk to Professor Niall Ferguson about living in a Communist system with a capitalist economy. It's held a fifth of humanity together for 2,000 years - will it last another 2,000?

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Niall Ferguson

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Episode 1

Emperors

47 mins

What does the super-state stand for? Professor Niall Ferguson puts this question to everyone from newly minted billionaires in China's megacities to survivors of the madness of Chairman Mao. His film looks in depth at how the vast apparatus of the Chinese state has always been called upon to overpower individual freedom for the higher goal of unity.

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