ID #:
662
Film Type:
Video
Color or BW:
N/A
Description:
Shanghai. It was a dangerous city of glamour and debauchery, a place where Westerners sought dark excitement and Chinese businessmen made fantastic fortunes. Journey to this legendary city to learn the real story of modern China's tumultuous birth. Through the rare archival footage, CHINA RISING examines the nationalist uprising of 1925, when opposition mounted against "foreign devils" and Chiang Kai-Shek triumphed over the warlords to unify the nation. Extraordinary interviews with Shanghai citizens, former leaders-even surviving warlords-recall the "no dogs or Chinese" signs on British-owned parks, the humiliating Japanese invasion of 1932 and The White Terror, when thousands of suspected communists were murdered by the waterfront Mafia.
Keywords:
China, communists, Japanese invasion, Shanghai, warlords, White Terror
Volume:
One