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The Chinese emperor who inspired Coleridge and Columbus was not Chinese. Carrie Gracie finds a pattern in the way China digests foreigners and their ideas. Show more
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Many Chinese look to Confucius for guidance. But Confucius looked to the Duke of Zhou. He handed power to his nephew 3,000 years ago, but his ideas still motivate leaders today.
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Carrie Gracie explores the lives of Du Fu and Li Bai, two men whose poetry remains as vivid in the Chinese imagination as Shakespeare is in our own. Show more
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Carrie Gracie explores the lives of three sisters who end up on different sides of China's bloody political divide after marrying some of the most important men of the 20th century. Show more
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The Emperor who built a unified China but enslaved nations and buried scholars in the process. Hero or villain? Show more
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The swashbuckling adventurer from ancient China, when cunning and courage ruled, whose exploits still grip China today. Show more
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Running China has always required a civil service machine. One man's tale of triumph and disaster among the yes men and flatterers of the 11th century. Show more
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A 19th-century Christian king on the Yangtse. The Europeans joined forces against him, and nearly 100 years later, it was another rebel who claimed to put China's people in power. Show more
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At best they have been taken for granted and sometimes they have endured far worse at the hands of China's governments and invaders alike. What voice for the Chinese public now?
58 minutes
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Carrie Gracie presents a series exploring what ten great lives from Chinese history reveal about China today. Show more
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Free speech has long had a high price in China. Here Sima Qian ponders his privates - and posterity - in a tale that still resonates after more than 2,000 years.
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Carrie Gracie presents a series exploring what ten great lives from Chinese history reveal about China today. Show more
