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The Chinese News Machine
'China? There lies a sleeping giant. Let him sleep, for when he wakes he will move the world.' NAPOLEON BONAPARTE
China is changing faster today than at any time since the revolution of 1949. In the big cities neon ads have replaced the sayings of Chairman Mao. Coca-Cola and colour televisions are on display along with glossy lipsticks and kissing in public. But is the country really becoming more democratic?
Michael Cockerell reports on the changes in China and examines the elaborate apparatus used to control the thoughts and actions of 1,000 million people. The first ever film inside the Chinese news machine reveals how the People's Daily, the Communist party paper, is produced. Its words are spread to the biggest readership in the world, and one vast factory monitors every single news story in China. But there is a dissident movement and the programme includes an exclusive interview with one of those inside China who questions the Communist system.
Producer PETER BATE

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Michael Cockerell
Producer:
Peter Bate
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