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China
- Program Title: Forbidden City: The Great Within
- EASC Code: CF-09
- Series Title:
- Region/Country: China
- Language: English
- Subtitles:
- Subject: History
- Program Type: Documentary
- Media Type:
- Director:
- Producer: Films for the Humanities and Sciences
- Release Date: 2003
- Running Time: 51 min.
- Color or BW: Color
- Program Abstract: Narrated by Rod Steiger, this timeless program explores the history of imperial China through its sybolic heart: Beijing, the "Forbidden City." The program gives a visually stunning tour of the hub of the world's oldest bureaucracy and center for all Chinese government, a city containing schools, temples, theaters, exquisite gardens, and 240 acres of palaces. Period paintings, etchings, archival material, and readings from 1,000 years of imperial diaries complement this unprecedented access to a capital long closed to the outside world. A Discovery Channel Production.
- Data Entry Date: 10/02/2003
