Su	Mo	Tu	We	Th	Fr	Sa
1	2	3	4	5	6	7
8	9	10	11	12	13	14
15	16	17	18	19	20	21
22	23	24	25	26	27	28
29	30	1	2	3	4	5

Channel 4 - China: Triumph And Turmoil (2012)

Posted By: Tutorial

Date: 14 Nov 2019 13:06:10

720p (HD) / HDTV

Niall Ferguson meets the people who can explain what China stands for: from newly minted billionaires in China's megacities to the survivors of the madness of Chairman Mao; and from aggressive young nationalists hacking into our computers to the brave defenders of China's rural poor. And he answers the questions that should concern all of us: will this turn out to be the Chinese century? Should we be scared? Or will the Red Dragon crash and burn?

Part 1: Emperors
Niall Ferguson shows how the vast apparatus of the Chinese state has always been called on to subjugate individual freedom to the higher goal of unity. Ferguson also examines how, on the other hand, centralised control produces tensions that threaten to destroy the country.

Part 2: Maostalgia
Niall Ferguson asks how China manages to live under a Communist system of government but with a thriving capitalist economy The succession of revolutions orchestrated by Mao Zedong killed more people than Hitler and Stalin combined. And yet this hard-line communist and murderer of businessmen is revered in China today as the founder of a modern-day capitalist superpower. Why?. To answer this question Niall travels from Beijing to Mao's birthplace at Shaoshan to the new supercity of Chongqing and to the rural backwaters of Anhui to track down survivors of the madness of Chairman Mao, newly minted billionaires and the Mao worshippers who believe tomorrow belongs to them. He finds the way China is governed is eerily similar to the way it was under the First Emperor. All the power lies in the hands of nine men with expressionless faces and what looks like the same hair dye - as unelected and as powerful as Emperor Qin. Autocracy that values unity over choice; secrecy over openness - not democracy. That has always been the Chinese way. It is the price that China is prepared to pay for the spectre that has always haunted its leaders: protest, rebellion and turmoil.

Part 3: SuperPower
Niall Ferguson asks what China's growing global presence and aggressive nationalism mean to all of us. China's supercharged economic growth signals a seismic shift in political power from West to East. We are increasingly dependent on China's money to bail out our own fragile economies. But at what price? How can we protest when China challenges our most deeply held beliefs about democracy and freedom of speech by locking up its citizens? Should we criticise them or just keep quiet for fear of frightening off much needed investment? When China transforms itself from an assembler of products invented in the West to an innovator in its own right what will be left for us to do? What will it be like to work in a Chinese-dominated world?

Related Documentaries:
ITV - China, America and Belgium (2016)
Channel 4 - The Last Emperor of China (2008)
BBC - China's Terracotta Army (2007)
The First Emperor - The Man who Made China (2007)

MediaInfo

[ About file ]

Name: China.Triumph.and.Turmoil.1of3.mkv
Date: Sun, 18 Dec 2016 07:23:25 +0200
Size: 1,519,729,315 bytes (1449.326816 MiB)

[ Magic ]

File type: data

[ Generic infos ]

Duration: 00:47:25 (2844.906 s)
Container: matroska
Production date: Sun, 01 Apr 2012 06:21:57 +0200
Total tracks: 3
Track nr. 1: video (V_MPEG4/ISO/AVC) {eng}
Track nr. 2: audio (A_AAC) {eng}
Track nr. 3: subtitle (S_TEXT/UTF8) {eng}
Muxing library: libebml v1.2.3 + libmatroska v1.3.0
Writing application: mkvmerge v5.4.0 ('Piper') built on Mar 10 2012 13:34:39

[ Relevant data ]

Resolution: 1280 x 720
Width: multiple of 32
Height: multiple of 16
Average DRF: 22.959042
Standard deviation: 0.348011
Std. dev. weighted mean: 0.004014

[ Video track ]

Codec ID: V_MPEG4/ISO/AVC
Resolution: 1280 x 720
Frame aspect ratio: 16:9 = 1.777778
Pixel aspect ratio: 1:1 = 1
Display aspect ratio: 16:9 = 1.777778
Framerate: 25 fps
Stream size: 1,461,918,528 bytes (1394.194153 MiB)
Duration (bs): 00:47:25 (2844.88 s)
Bitrate (bs): 4111.016361 kbps
Qf: 0.17843

[ Audio track ]

Codec ID: A_AAC
Sampling frequency: 48000 Hz
Channels: 2
Stream size: 56,929,254 bytes (54.291967 MiB)
Bitstream type (bs): AAC LC (Low Complexity)
Frames (bs): 133,355
Duration (bs): 00:47:25 (2844.906667 s)
Chunk-aligned (bs): Yes
Bitrate (bs): 160.087513 kbps VBR
Sampling frequency (bs): 48000 Hz
Mode (bs): 2: front-left, front-right

[ Video bitstream ]

Bitstream type: MPEG-4 Part 10
User data: x264 | core 122 r2184 5c85e0a | H.264/MPEG-4 AVC codec
User data: Copyleft 2003-2012 | cabac=1
User data: ref=6 | deblock=1:0:0 | analyse=0x3:0x113 | me=umh | subme=9 | psy=1
User data: psy_rd=1.00:0.00 | mixed_ref=1 | me_range=24 | chroma_me=1
User data: trellis=1 | 8x8dct=1 | cqm=0 | deadzone=21,11 | fast_pskip=0
User data: chroma_qp_offset=-2 | threads=3 | sliced_threads=0 | nr=0
User data: decimate=1 | interlaced=0 | bluray_compat=0 | constrained_intra=0
User data: bframes=3 | b_pyramid=2 | b_adapt=1 | b_bias=0 | direct=1
User data: weightb=1 | open_gop=0 | weightp=2 | keyint=150 | keyint_min=15
User data: scenecut=40 | intra_refresh=0 | rc_lookahead=40 | rc=crf | mbtree=1
User data: crf=18.0 | qcomp=0.60 | qpmin=0 | qpmax=69 | qpstep=4
User data: ip_ratio=1.40 | aq=1:1.00
SPS id: 0
Profile: High@L4.1
Num ref frames: 6
Aspect ratio: Square pixels
Chroma format: YUV 4:2:0
PPS id: 0 (SPS: 0)
Entropy coding type: CABAC
Weighted prediction: P slices - explicit weighted prediction
Weighted bipred idc: B slices - implicit weighted prediction
8x8dct: Yes
Total frames: 71,122
Drop/delay frames: 0
Corrupt frames: 0

P-slices: 31922 ( 44.883 %) #########
B-slices: 38219 ( 53.737 %) ###########
I-slices: 981 ( 1.379 %)
SP-slices: 0 ( 0.000 %)
SI-slices: 0 ( 0.000 %)

[ DRF analysis ]

average DRF: 22.959042
standard deviation: 0.348011
max DRF: 23

DRF<20: 0 ( 0.000 %)
DRF=20: 969 ( 1.362 %)
DRF=21: 3 ( 0.004 %)
DRF=22: 0 ( 0.000 %)
DRF=23: 70150 ( 98.633 %) ####################
DRF>23: 0 ( 0.000 %)

P-slices average DRF: 23
P-slices std. deviation: 0
P-slices max DRF: 23

B-slices average DRF: 23
B-slices std. deviation: 0
B-slices max DRF: 23

I-slices average DRF: 20.030581
I-slices std. deviation: 0.291018
I-slices max DRF: 23

[ Profile compliancy ]

Selected profile: MTK PAL 6000
Resolution: 1280 x 720 > 720 x 576
Framerate: Ok
Buffer underflow: 00:01:46 (frame 2648)
Buffer underflow: 00:01:59 (frame 2965)
Buffer underflow: 00:01:59 (frame 2979)
Buffer underflow: 00:02:00 (frame 2991)
Buffer underflow: 00:02:38 (frame 3959)
Buffer underflow: 00:02:39 (frame 3966)
Buffer underflow: 00:02:39 (frame 3974)
Buffer underflow: 00:02:41 (frame 4031)
Buffer underflow: 00:02:42 (frame 4044)
Buffer underflow: 00:02:47 (frame 4178)
Buffer underflow: 00:02:48 (frame 4189)
Buffer underflow: 00:02:49 (frame 4233)
Buffer underflow: 00:02:51 (frame 4265)
Buffer underflow: 00:02:52 (frame 4309)
Buffer underflow: 00:03:45 (frame 5622)
Buffer underflow: 00:05:53 (frame 8835)
Buffer underflow: 00:05:54 (frame 8851)
Buffer underflow: 00:05:55 (frame 8880)
Buffer underflow: 00:05:56 (frame 8894)
Buffer underflow: 00:06:14 (frame 9344)
Error: Too many violations

This report was created by AVInaptic (18-12-2011) on 18-12-2016 12:10:41

Screenshots

Welcome to my blog - daily update!

Download full movie Channel 4 - China: Triumph And Turmoil (2012)

Subtitles (from opensubtitles.org)

Documentary Historical