• Director(s):

    NAVARO (ILANA), BABA MISKE (KARIM)

  • Producer(s):

    ARTE FRANCE, PROGRAM 33

  • Territories:

    Worldwide.

  • Production year:

    2023

  • Language(s):

    German, English, French

  • Rights:

    TV, DVD, NON-THEATRICAL, INTERNET, VOD

This first episode tells how, during the 19th century, the West, then in full colonial expansion, confronted a China that, until then, thought itself all-powerful. 

This half-century was one of constant convulsions of a ­nation on the brink of collapse as it sought to invent a way to survive, without losing its soul and all while improving itself. The story begins with China in the hands of the Qing Dynasty, threathened by the Europeans during the Second Opium War. From the fall of the Middle Empire to the rise of the Chinese Communist Party, discover China's History like you never did before!