China's capitalist revolution [videorecording] / produced and directed by Rob Coldstream.
Contributor(s): Coldstream, Rob | Fraser, Nick
| Lapping, Anne | Newman, Tim | Burton, Mike | Nuttgens, Sandy | Brook Lapping Productions | British Broadcasting Corporation.
Publisher: Harlow : BBC Active, [2009]Description: 2 videodiscs (92 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.Subject(s): Deng, Xiaoping, 1904-1997 | Capitalism -- China | China -- Economic conditions | China -- History -- 1976-2002 | China -- Social conditions -- 2000-DDC classification: 330.1220951 | Item type | Current location | Call number | Vol info | Copy number | Status | Notes | Date due | Barcode |
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| Media Resources | Taylor's Library-TU | 330.1220951 CHI 2009 (Browse shelf) | Part 1 | 1 | Available | TDSxx,29007,02,GR | 1000528555 | |
| Media Resources | Taylor's Library-TU | 330.1220951 CHI 2009 (Browse shelf) | Part 2 | 1 | Available | TDSxx,29007,02,GR | 1000528554 |
A Brook Lapping production for BBC.
"Twenty years on from the massacre at Tiananmen Square, the two-part documentary, China's Capitalist Revolution attempts to answer why capitalism contributed heavily to the tragic events of that day. When Chairman Mao died in 1976, he left China in chaos and poverty. He was succeeded by Deng Xiaoping, who overturned Maoism and taught the Chinese to love capitalism, creating special investment zones for the West. But Deng's crash course in capitalism went wrong when inflation grew and workers lost jobs. By 1989, China faced disaster. Now, 20 years after the tragic events in Tiananmen Square in Beijing, this two-part BBC documentary reveals an interpretation of the motives of the demonstrators that may well overturn the conventional view in the West. The demonstrators did not begin by demanding democracy. Corruption, inflation and the hardship caused by economic reforms drove students and workers to confront the government and the army. Students went on hunger strike, and troops killed more than 2,000. Deng Xiaoping gave the order to fire, but his ideas prevailed. China's Capitalist Revolution argues that Deng's capitalist revolution created today's China."--Enhance TV website.
Executive producers, Nick Fraser, Anne Lapping ; camera, Tim Newman ... [et al.] ; film editor, Mike Burton ; music, Sandy Nuttgens.
Narrator, David Suchet.
DVD.