Tag: China
1421: The Year China Discovered America?
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On March 8, 1421, the largest fleet the world had ever seen sailed from its base in China. The ships, huge junks nearly five hundred feet long and built from the finest teak, were under the command of Emperor Zhu Di's...
Hitchhiking Across China: Thumbs Up
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Despite not knowing a word of Chinese and having absolutely no money, David Choe and Harry Kim decided to hitchhike clear across China.
Transmission 6-10: Human Rights Violations In China
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Breaking the silence on China's secret Genocide. This is a pirate broadcast sent out to inform others about the atrocities taking place in China today that no-body knows about, except those who could make a differ...
New South China Mall: The World’s Largest Shopping Mall
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This short documentary tells the story of the New South China Mall, which is the world's largest shopping mall (twice the size of America's largest mall - The Mall of America in Minnesota). Unfortunately, it was b...
Mao’s Bloody Cultural Revolution Revealed
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Mao’s Bloody Revolution Revealed is hosted by Philip Short, BBC correspondent and author of Mao: A Life. Bloody Revolution can be divided into two parts. The first half of the documentary covers the course of the Chin...
Three Gorges Dam: Great Wall Across the Yangtze
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The Three Gorges Dam is the world's largest hydroelectric dam and also the world's largest electricity-generating plant of any kind. In addition to generating more energy than the combined total of 15 nuclear power pl...
Kung Fu Monks: Secrets of the Shaolin Temple
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National Geographic's Kung Fu Monks: Secrets of the Shaolin Temple is about the Shaolin monks who gave birth to Kung Fu. For thousands of years, the Shaolin monks have trained the top Kung Fu masters and played a pivo...
Legacy: The Origins of Civilization
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We humans have been on the Earth for more than a million years, but civilization – life in cities – has come about only in the last 5,000. Through history civilizations have rose and fell, carved out of nature, dep...