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📊 Series Specifications
Network Network Broadcast
Episode Runtime ~ min
Total Seasons 1
Total Episodes 2
Original Language EN
China on Film (2019)
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Returning Series Series Status:
Currently airing weekly on international broadcast networks.
Synopsis
China on Film - a collection of rare films documenting life and landscape in China and Hong Kong in the first half of the 20th century.
Seasons & Episodes
Season 1
2 Episodes E1 China On The Cusp Of Change
The very first films of China present a surprising variety of daily life during the last decade of the Qing Dynasty. Shot by amateur foreign cameramen, they show the bustling street life of Shanghai’s Nanjing Road in 1900, and more intimate vignettes of ordinary Chinese in their homes and at work.
E2 The War Years
This episode flaunts the first-ever colour film of China - capturing a unique moment in Beijing's history. Other films show Shanghai in the jazz age, the new middle class enjoying a funfair, and mission schools and hospitals set up in the countryside. All before the war years descend on China.