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Story of China
Golden Age
Season 1
Episode 3
In the alleys of Kaifeng, the world's greatest city before the 19th century, Michael Wood hears legends, samples the cuisine and explores printing. We see a huge working replica of an astronomical clock made by 'China's Leonardo da Vinci', one of the inventions that made the Song a great era of science. And at a crunch Chinese Premier League match, we learn that the Chinese even invented soccer!
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The great Taiping Rebellion, the fall of the Empire and the rise of Mao.
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Michael Wood tells the dramatic tale of China's last empire, the Qing.
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The time of the Great Wall , the Forbidden City and treasure ships sent on ocean voyages.
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Michael Wood conjures up China's first great international age, the Tang Dynasty.
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Michael Wood returns to the beginnings of Chinese history to find clues to today's China.