Season 1 (2022)
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Episodes 5
1
Chinese Dreams
January 3, 2022
• 56m
Chinese President Xi Jinping understands the greatest threat to the authoritarian state is not an invading army but the free minds of its people. This episode explores the fight for freedom of thought in China.
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2
Economic Miracle
January 10, 2022
• 56m
The story of China's meteoric economic growth and its earth-shattering repercussions.
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3
Unify The Motherland
January 17, 2022
• 56m
China's return to imperial power after a century of humiliation.
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4
City of Protest
January 24, 2022
• 56m
After 150 years of British occupation, Hong Kong was returned to China in 1997. We examine how the territory has always been defined by the contest of influence between China and the West and how that tension plays out today.
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Cold War Two
Season Finale
January 31, 2022
• 56m
The world's greatest rivalry began with hope and idealism. What went wrong?
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