Change and continuity in the world's longest surviving civilisation
Richard Harris of The Times presents 14 programmes 3: China's Old World
In the last 500 years China has been enclosed, hesitant in welcoming outsiders, but still regarding herself as the upholder of civilisation in a world of which she was the centre. This programme includes:
JOHN FAIRBANK , Director of the East Asian Research Center at Harvard c. p. FITZGERALD, Professor Emeritus in Far Eastern History at Canberra d. c. twitchett, Professor of Chinese at Cambridge
MARK MANCALL, Professor of History at Stanford
Reader WILLIAM SLEIGH
Series producer ADRIAN JOHNSON (Rptd: Thursday, 10.25 pm)
Book: A Chinese View of China, 70p: see page 66