China: The Roots of Madness (1967)

Directors

Mel Stuart

Cast

Empress Dowager Cixi

The story

Episode one White referred to Empress Dowager Cixi as "China's evil spirit... a Manchu concubine... said to have poisoned her own son upon his throne, install her infant nephew as the emperor, killed his mother, and then imprisoned him in 1898." Episode two White's impression on the downfall of Qing Dynasty: "...and then it vanished, simply vanished, the Manchu Dynasty disappeared overnight, nothing like that had ever happen in all the history, 2000 years of tradition, the whole structure of the imperial confucianism, political thought, dissolving to dust...." On post-Qing China, "out of this turbulence, there appeared two types of Asian…

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