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Chiang Kai-Shek and Soong Meiling: Asian Power Couple

The power couple who reunited China and nearly lost it to Japan.

• 13 mins

Kumarajiva: Translator Monk

The translator and Buddhist monk whose words are chanted daily by millions of Chinese.

• 14 mins

Matteo Ricci: Jesuit and Geometrist

The Jesuit who brought together Renaissance Europe and Ming China through geometry.

• 14 mins

Ding Ling: Sophie, Sensation and Sex

Rana Mitter on the life of one of China's most important feminist authors.

• 13 mins

Sima Qian: Grand Historian

The historian who spoke the truth to the emperor and suffered for it.

• 14 mins

Kublai Khan: Cosmopolitan Conqueror

The Mongol head of a dynasty that both occupied China and connected it to a wider world.

• 14 mins

Confucius: Becoming the Sage

The smiling philosopher who is perhaps the most famous Chinese person in history.

• 14 mins

Li Qingzhao: Patriotic Poet

The woman remembered today as one of the great poets of Chinese history.

• 14 mins

River Elegy: River and Ocean

River Elegy was a pioneering TV documentary series, one of the most watched in history.

• 14 mins

Zheng He: The Admiral Goes to Africa

The Muslim sailor whose epic maritime voyages created new routes for trade and influence.

• 14 mins

Robert Hart: Chinese Customs

The influential Ulsterman who became a servant of the Chinese emperors.

• 14 mins

Lu Xun: Compassionate Cynic

A writer still read by every Chinese pupil and considered China's greatest modern author.

• 14 mins

Wang Jingwei: Revolutionary Renegade

The man who saw himself as a patriot, but is remembered as one of China's worst traitors.

• 15 mins

Hong Xiuquan v Zeng Guofan: The Duellists

The rebel leader of the Taiping and his nemesis.

• 15 mins

Cixi: Ambivalent Empress

The empress dowager who tried - and failed - to reform.

• 15 mins

Factory Girls: Modern Girls, Modern Dreams

The hard-working, hard-living factory girls behind China's industrial revolution.

• 1 min

Mao Zedong: The Man Who Made Modern China

The Communist leader who changed his country forever.

• 1 min

Bruce Lee: Screen Warrior

The fastest pair of fists in East Asia and the first global Chinese film star.

• 15 mins

Deng Xiaoping: Black Cat, Yellow Cat

The paramount leader who enabled China's economic miracle.

• 1 min

Omnibus 1

Portraits of remarkable individuals who have made China what it is today.

• 60 mins

Omnibus 2

Portraits of remarkable individuals who have made China what it is today.

• 60 mins

Omnibus 3

Portraits of remarkable individuals who have made China what it is today.

• 60 mins

Omnibus 4

Portraits of remarkable individuals who have made China what it is today.

• 60 mins