Cinema Studies (Z)

Documentary Film: Michael Wood’s The Story of China (Parts 5 & 6)

Home to over a billion people, China is the new superpower, a country we all want to understand, and historian Michael Wood argues that to do so we have to look at its history, its people, its ancient cities, its voyages of exploration, its scientific inventions. Full of big ideas and unexpected surprises, he shows how the Chinese created their own distinctive vision of the world, a vision that is still alive in the 21st century, and which Wood claims is the real motor behind the incredible success of China today. (2016, cc, 110 minutes.)