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The Taiping Rebellion (1850–1864), usually known in Chinese after the name of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom (simplified Chinese: 太平天国; traditional Chinese: 太平天國; pinyin: Tàipíng Tiānguó) proclaimed by the rebels, was a rebellion in southern China inspired by a Hakka named Hong Xiuquan, who had claimed that he was the ...
Home Coming (Chinese: 万里归途) is a 2022 Chinese war drama film directed by Rao Xiaozhi [], starring Zhang Yi, Wang Junkai and Yin Tao. [1] [2] [3] The film picks up the story of two unarmed Chinese diplomats delving into a rebel force-controlled area in the fictional war-wrecked Republic of Numea to lead 125 Chinese citizens safely back to China. [1]
This category encompasses films about and set in the Cultural Revolution (1966-1976), a violent sociopolitical purge movement in China.Launched by Mao Zedong, Chairman of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), its stated goal was to preserve Chinese communism by purging remnants of capitalist and traditional elements from Chinese society, and to re-impose Mao Zedong Thought (known outside China as ...
Netflix China Undercover [5] 2020 Investigative Frontline PBS PBS Newshour Presents: China: Power and Prosperity [6] 2020 News PBS Do Not Split [7] 2020 Documentary Anders Hammer, Charlotte Cook Field of Vision: Tiananmen: The People vs. the Party [8] 2019 Documentary PBS Joshua: Teenager vs. Superpower [9] 2017 Documentary
Inside China, the rebellion faced resistance from the traditionalist rural classes because of hostility to Chinese culture and Confucian values. The landowning upper class, unsettled by the Taiping ideology and the policy of strict separation of the sexes, even for married couples, sided with government forces.
Red Cliff or Chibi (Chinese: 赤壁; pinyin: Chì bì) is a 2008–2009 internationally co-produced epic war film, based on the Battle of Red Cliffs (208–209 AD) and the events at the end of the Han dynasty and immediately prior to the Three Kingdoms period in Imperial China.
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The Warlords (投名狀), previously known as The Blood Brothers, is a 2007 Chinese–Hong Kong epic historical action film directed and co-produced by Peter Chan, starring Jet Li, Andy Lau, Takeshi Kaneshiro and Xu Jinglei. The film, set in China in the 1860s during the Taiping Rebellion, revolves