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Buddha in the Land of the Kami (7th-12th Centuries)
The history of Japan past and present is the story of the kami, the supernatural, not quite godlike spirits who underlie the Japanese-ness of Japan-who created the Japanese islands at the beginning of time and remain today the ones responsible for he...(more details) |
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The Education of a Singer at the Beijing Opera
It took seven years for Wang Runqing to get his diploma from the Conservatory of the Beijing National Opera. Descended from a family of actors, he had no illusions about the hardships that awaited him. This program follows his rigorous training in a ...(more details) |
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The Chinese Revolution
On October 1, 1949, the People's Reublic of China came into being following the victory of Mao Tse-tung's forces over the Kuomintang, which fled to the island of Taiwan. Thus the Communists completed a revolution begun by the idealistic Sun Yat-sen i...(more details) |
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Mao Tse-tung: The Architect of Modern China
This program looks at the life, the achievements, and the legacy of Mao Tse-tung: birth, education, enlistment in the revolutionary army revolting against the Manchu dynasty; founding the Communist Party and the first Chinese Soviet; break with the K...(more details) |
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The Dalai Lama: A Portrait in the First Person
By the force of his words, he has turned the disaster of the Chinese depredations in Tibet and the tragedy of his own exile from his roots and his spiritual home into a worldwide message of peace and strength. In this program, the Dalai Lama speaks o...(more details) |
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