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...

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...

This video covers the economics behind China (or, to be more precise, the People's Republic of China or PRC) under the rule of Mao Zedong and the Communist Party of China (CPC). On the one hand, China was coming after a humiliating...

MOT 1949: MAO ZEDONG: ** VS Russian Ambassador to China Nikolai Vasilivich Roscin getting out of vehicle in Beiping-Tianjin (not Beijing). INT VS Chairman Mao Zedong meeting w/ Roscin, forming partnership. First Republic of China,...

MOT 1945: MAO ZEDONG: * BRIEF VS Communist leader Mao Zedong (aka Chairman Mao, 1893-1976) exiting building, walking w/ other officials. Chinese Revolution, People's Republic of China (PRC), Maoism, People's Liberation Army

This is the first video out of 3 about... you've guessed it, China :) More specifically, I've analyzed not just China's economy but also the historic/political dimension in one minute. The data I've used takes us back roughly 2,000...

Time for the third and final video of my mini-series about China: one that analyzes China from a politico-economic perspective after the regime of Mao Zedong. It all started with the brief experience of Hua Guofeng and the game-changing...

MOT 1949: REPUBLIC OF CHINA: ** VS Chairman Mao Zedong standing in open military jeep, saluting army lined up during military parade displaying anti-aircraft cannons, tanks, Chinese men waving & cheering. Communist China, Communism,...

MOT 1944: NORTHERN CHINA: Chinese mountains. HA PAN Crowd of Communist Chinese people holding flags. Brief glimpse (side) of Communist leader Mao Zedong (1893-1976) on stage. More crowd. Brief Commander of Red Army Zhu De (Chu Teh,...

MOT 1949: COMMUNIST PARTY OF CHINA: SHANGHAI: VS CPC soldiers parading through Shanghai streets in DUKWs vehicles, saluting, Chinese men on streets cheering along, soldiers marching, people parading, Mao Zedong (unconfirmed) overseeing...

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...

Why was China so Weak before WW2? | History of China 1930-1937 Documentary 5/10

Why was China divided before WW2? History of China 1918-1930 Documentary 4/10

How did the Communists Take over China? | History of China 1945-1955 Documentary 7/10

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

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

(January 1, 1912) Soon Yat-sen establishes the Republic of China, forcing the last emperor of the Xing Dynasty to abdicate; ending 2000 years of imperial rule. (1927) When Yat-sen dies, civil war ravages the nation, pitting Chang...

(January 1, 1912) Soon Yat-sen establishes the Republic of China, forcing the last emperor of the Xing Dynasty to abdicate; ending 2000 years of imperial rule. (1927) When Yat-sen dies, civil war ravages the nation, pitting Chang...

Sun Yat-sen establishes the Republic of China, forcing the last emperor of the Ching Dynasty to abdicate; ending 2000 years of imperial rule. When Yat-sen dies, civil war ravages the nation, pitting Chiang Kai-shek and the nationalists...

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...

Mao Zedong swimming in a river in 1966 was a big deal. Become a Video Lab member!='http://bit.ly/video-lab' target='_blank' rel='nofollow'>member! In 1966, Mao Zedong, China’s communist leader and the founder of the People’s Republic...

After the fall of the Qing dynasty China fell apart and both, forces loyal to Chiang Kais-shek's National Kuomintang Party and as Mao Zedong's Communist Party of China, fought to rule the country. This bloody struggle would ultimately...

► Subscribe to the Financial Times on YouTube='http://bit.ly/FTimeSubs' target='_blank' rel='nofollow'>YouTube Thirty-seven-years after the death of Mao Zedong in 1976 at the age of 83, his influence is still felt in Chinese society....

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