China: The Dragon's Ascent Episode Guide
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Episode Guide
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Season 1 Episode 8: The Dragon Ascends?
During the last quarter of the 20th century, China makes a great leap of industrialization.
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Season 1 Episode 7: The Health Culture
Many around the world look to China for new directions in health care.
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Season 1 Episode 6: Family Values
China's controversial one-child policy puts the culture's fundamental values under great strain.
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Season 1 Episode 5: Feast or Famine
China tries to feed 20 percent of the world's population with just seven percent of the globe's available arable land.
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Season 1 Episode 4: History as a Mirror
Rulers face the tension between the need to govern and the need to keep the population contented and quiet.
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Season 1 Episode 3: The Power to Predict
Imperial astronomers and mathematicians keep meticulous records.
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Season 1 Episode 2: Two-Way Traffic
China exchanges ideas and techniques with the outside world.
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Season 1 Episode 1: Forging the Future
Archaeologists unearth evidence of ancient China's advanced mastery of metals.
