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The Pacific Century

1992
1 season
10 episodes
Documentary

The Pacific Century was a 1992 PBS Emmy Award winning ten part documentary series narrated by Peter Coyote about the rise of the Pacific Rim economies. Alex Gibney was the writer for the series, and Frank Gibney, his father, wrote the companion trade book, The Pacific Century: America and Asia in a Changing World. The companion college telecourse, Pacific Century: The Emergence of Modern Pacific Asia, was written and edited by Mark Borthwick. The series was a co-production of the Pacific Basin Institute and KCTS-TV in Seattle. Principle funding was provided by the Annenberg Foundation.

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  • Ep 1

    1.The Two Coasts of China

    01-10-1992

    Introduces the concept of a "balancing act" in China's elite's perceptions of external threats and opportunities that in one form or another have presented themselves ever since t...

  • Ep 2

    2.The Meiji Revolution

    08-10-1992

    Japan became the first industrially and technically underdeveloped nation to modernize itself and become a great power. Its transformation took place under the authority of the you...

  • Ep 3

    3.From the Barrel of a Gun

    15-10-1992
  • Ep 4

    4.Writers & Revolutionaries

    22-10-1992
  • Ep 5

    5.Reinventing Japan

    29-10-1992
  • Ep 6

    6.Inside Japan, Inc.

    05-11-1992
  • Ep 7

    7.Big Business and the Ghost of Confucius

    12-11-1992
  • Ep 8

    8.The Fight for Democracy

    19-11-1992
  • Ep 9

    9.Sentimental Imperialists

    26-11-1992
  • Ep 10

    10.The Pacific Century

    03-12-1992

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