In August 1968, factory workers overheard news of a mandatory meeting. Whispered rumors described shipments of a gift from the country's Communist leader, Chairman Mao Zedong. And sure enough, managers soon distributed a gift to every...

Gandhi gains power and leads India's independence movement. Part 4 of our timeline of the greatest revolutions in history--moments that shaped modern civilization.

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Video Atlas of Asia:This clip examines the culture and geography of the Tibetan Plateau region of China.

China was once the wealthiest in the world and now it was struggling to feed itself, it was these kinds of conditions that gave rise to the political system that would go on to define china in the latter half of the twentieth...

Mao Zedong: Great at rebelling against governments, not so great at leading them. Climbed to the top of the communist ladder during the Long March, and won the Chinese Civil War! ...But then the Great Leap Forward backfired and the...

By the 1960s, the world's two largest communist countries, the Soviet Union and China, were not getting along so well. Mao Zedong, the leader of China,and Nikita Khrushchev, the leader of the Soviet Union, both had different...

In this episode we examine the topic: Confucianism is Making a Comeback in China

Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the Socialist People's Republic of Albania Mehmet Shehu meets Chairman of the Communist Party of China Mao Zedong in Peking, China.

1. ms Mao and Shehu shake
hands
2. ms Mao...

Chairman of the Communist Party in China, Mao Tse Tung ( Mao Zedong) attends the Peking Opera

1. Mao walks through theatre, past stalls with guests and photograhpers. Mao turns to face camera and
waves
2. WS of...

1. Wide shot Nepalese Royal plane taxiing

2. Close up Nepalese
flag
3. Various of Indian
officials
4. King and coming
down from plane
5. King and queen meeting several Indian and Nepalese
officials at...

United States Secretary of State Henry Kissinger, and his wife Nancy, meeting Chairman Mao Zedong in a suprise meeting.

1. ws Beijing tr
affic
2. vs ca
r arriving
3. vs Kissinger
and Nancy enter
4. ms Kissinge
r and...

Mexican President Luis Echeverria meets Chairman Mao Zedong during his visit to Peking (Beijing).

1. various of convoy of cars into gardens of Forbidden P
alace
2. ms Echeverria and Chinese Prime Minister Zhou Enlai...

A march is held by supporters of Chairman Mao Zedong.

1. vs ms march goes a
long
2. ms man with post
er of Mao
3. ms people in march with li
ttle red books
4.
mcu people chant
ing
5. ws pan march
Film: Pos...

Jiang Qing, widow of Chairman Mao Zedong (Mao Tze Tung) arriving to Phnom Penh for a visit and is greeted by Leader Pol Pot.

1. ms Qing down plane stairs, applauding, girls present her with flowers, pan to Pol Pot who gives her...

1. Mid of soldiers holding yellow flags in Tiananmen Square

2. Wide of large floral decoration and f
lags
3. Pan from wide of students walking in Tiananmen square to wide of Great Hall of
the...

1. Wide of gate of Chiang Kai-shek Memorial Hall

2. Mid of gate and two cr
anes
3. People
watching
4. Man filming with hi
s mobile phone
5. Mid of Chinese character "C
hong" being removed
6....

Badges of the Chinese leader Mao Zedong are massed produced in a Peking Factory.

1. ws exterior fac
tory
2. mcu engravers maki
ng blocks
3. cu en
graver at work
4. mcu engraved blocks
with Mao's face on...

Badges of the Chinese leader Mao Zedong are massed produced in a Peking Factory.

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05***
1. ws exterio
r factory
2. mcu engravers
making blocks
3.
cu engraver at work
4. mcu...

File and Archive background footage of Soviet Premiere, Nikita Khrushchev

1. United Press opening title: Nikita Khrus
hchev
2. various close...

Albanian delegation arrives to Peking (Beijing) and meets with Chinese leaders.

1. gv conference hall, dignitaries seated on podium, crowd in aud
ience
2. gv delegates
applauding
3. ms Chinese and...