Change and continuity in the world's longest surviving civilisation
14 programmes presented by Richard Harris of The Times 4: Confrontation with the West Energy, flowering, decay and fall -the Ching dynasty was in decay before the Opium War of 1840. But the penetration of western ideas was to add a unique ingredient to the cyclical process of renewal. This was the starting point of China's modern history.
This programme includes C. P. FITZGERALD
FREDERIC WAKEMAN
BENJAMIN SCHWARTZ
RHOADS MURPHEY , MARTIN KRNAL Readers NIGEL GRAHAM and WILLIAM SLEIGH
Series producer ADRIAN JOHNSON
Book, A Chinese View of China. 70p: see page 66 followed by an interlude