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Course of Our Times, The; China Goes Communist
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- Series
- Course of Our Times, The
- Program
- China Goes Communist
- Program Number
34
- Series Description
Historical survey hosted by Abram Sachar, Brandeis University. Series release date: 1973
- Program Description
China after world War II went through one of the momentous transformations in modern history involving hundreds of millions of people, a fifth of the human race. Under the leadership of a guerilla genius, Mao Tse-Tung, a backward, peasant, warlord-ridden society became a military and economic giant, challenging in strength and potential the American and Russian power structures. The Chinese Revolution, under Mao, represented the greatest diplomatic disaster in American history. For China had been an American prot g up to World War II. It was a fixed point in American diplomacy to build it as an Asian bastion, to protect it from the encroachments of Japan and the Soviets. But China went Communist, and the United States not only lost its most valuable ally in Asia, but was confronted thereafter with implacable enemy.
- Duration
00:30:00
- Asset Type
Broadcast program
- Media Type
Video
- Subjects
- Politics and Government
- Global Affairs
- Genres
- Educational
- Topics
- History
- Creators
- Sachar, Abram (Host)
- MacLeod, Margaret (Producer)
- Livingston, Claude (Director)
- Publication Information
- WGBH Educational Foundation
- Citation
- Chicago: “Course of Our Times, The; China Goes Communist,” GBH Archives, accessed December 7, 2024, http://openvault.wgbh.org/catalog/V_D89024DD772F4DCCAE06D532F1A5772B.
- MLA: “Course of Our Times, The; China Goes Communist.” GBH Archives. Web. December 7, 2024. <http://openvault.wgbh.org/catalog/V_D89024DD772F4DCCAE06D532F1A5772B>.
- APA: Course of Our Times, The; China Goes Communist. Boston, MA: GBH Archives. Retrieved from http://openvault.wgbh.org/catalog/V_D89024DD772F4DCCAE06D532F1A5772B