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China's Long March

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Philip Short , author of a major new biography Mao - a Life, concludes his journey across China, reporting on the Long March of 1934-5 as history and as metaphor. Marching for the Future. Standing in the birthplace of the Yellow Emperor, Huangdi- legendary founder of the Chinese nation - he analyses the future of the Chinese people and meets cosmopolitan academics and thinkers. Producer MaryPrice

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