China: The Dragon's Ascent Episode Guide

Episode Guide

• Season 1 Episode 8: The Dragon Ascends?

  During the last quarter of the 20th century, China makes a great leap of industrialization.

• Season 1 Episode 7: The Health Culture

  Many around the world look to China for new directions in health care.

• Season 1 Episode 6: Family Values

  China's controversial one-child policy puts the culture's fundamental values under great strain.

• 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.

• 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.

• Season 1 Episode 3: The Power to Predict

  Imperial astronomers and mathematicians keep meticulous records.

• Season 1 Episode 2: Two-Way Traffic

  China exchanges ideas and techniques with the outside world.

• Season 1 Episode 1: Forging the Future

  Archaeologists unearth evidence of ancient China's advanced mastery of metals.