China: The Making of a Nation
China: The Making of a Nation is the story of the painful transformation of the vast Qing Empire into the Chinese nation after the 1911 revolution. Spanning more than a century up to the Xi Jinping era, the story pits the two pivotal leaders of this transformation against each other: Chiang Kai-shek, leader of the Republic of China for 47 years, and Mao Zedong, who rose from ‘red bandit’ to master of the mainland in 1949. Sworn enemies, they fought a merciless battle: first military, then diplomatic, and finally, beyond their deaths, in the conflicting memories of the Taiwanese and the Chinese of the People's Republic. Beyond their fierce hatred, the two tyrants also had much in common: a certain vision of Chinese territory and the greatness of China, the desire to regain the country's sovereignty and the quest for a Chinese identity in a nation that also includes Tibetans, Uighurs, Mongols... and a certain ability to rewrite history.
Year: 2026
Genre: Documentary
Country: France
Studio: ARTE
Director: Anne Loussouarn
Cast: Sarah-Jane Sauvegrain, Thierry Debrune, Marie-Ève Dufresne, Daniel Lafourcade, Jean-François Pagès, Benoît Rivillon
Crew: Anne Loussouarn (Director), Anne Loussouarn (Writer), Théo Ainley (Translator), Wang Jing Yi (Translator), Xavier Wei (Translator), Olivier de Bannes (Executive Producer)
First Air Date: Feb 10, 2026
Last Air date: Feb 10, 2026
Season: 1 Season
Episode: 2 Episode
Runtime: 60 minutes
IMDb: 8.00/10 by 1.00 users
Popularity: 1.7182
Language: Mandarin, German, English, French, Japanese, Russian
Keyword : civil war, china, identity, nationalism, revolution, taiwan, sun yat-sen, communism, imperialism, qing dynasty, japanese, republic, mao zedong, history, 20th century, chiang kai-shek
Season
Season 1
Episode
The Blue Sun
The Red Sun
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