Red China

Series: White Paper Series

Genre: Educational

Year Published: 1962

Creator: The Pentagon

Format: 16mm

Sound: sound

Description: Televised on NBC in the White paper seriesNarrator, Chet HuntleyTraces the rise of Mao Tse-tung and the Communists during the Civil War against Chiang Kai-shek and the Chinese Nationalists from 1946 to 1949; describes Communist China's successful five-year plan, followed by the disastrous "great leap forward". Uses films made by Swiss photographer Fernand Gigon inside Communist China to examine changes that have occurred under the Communist regime in the past few years, the relationship of China to the Soviet Union and other nations, and Red China's growing strength and threat to world peace

Complete Record: Televised on NBC in the White paper series Narrator, Chet Huntley Traces the rise of Mao Tse-tung and the Communists during the Civil War against Chiang Kai-shek and the Chinese Nationalists from 1946 to 1949; describes Communist China's successful five-year plan, followed by the disastrous "great leap forward". Uses films made by Swiss photographer Fernand Gigon inside Communist China to examine changes that have occurred under the Communist regime in the past few years, the relationship of China to the Soviet Union and other nations, and Red China's growing strength and threat to world peace