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People's Century: 1951 - Asia Rising

on BBC Two England

In the years following the Second World War, the west underestimated first the Japanese, then the Koreans, as their shattered economies caught up. In this film, the people who began to beat the Europeans and Americans at their own game tell how they did it.

(Shown yesterday at 4.25pm on BBC1)
(Stereo) (Subtitled)

Contributors

Producer:
Bill Treharne Jones
Executive Producer:
Peter Pagnamenta

BBC Two England

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