China: The Roots of Madness

China: The Roots of Madness; National Security Council. This film covers China's political history including Mao Tse-tung, the Boxer Rebellion, and the Nationalist - Communist victory. An introduction to the complex state and cultural ambivalence of China. The program covers a period of one hundred and seventy years of Chinese history.

• Yuan Shikai/Sun Yatsen, man of dream/Warlords to rule by killing/1920 suffering/Shanghai's Western lifestyle/Russian used Sun Yatsen to bring communism into China
• The growth of Russian inspired Nationalist left wing faction/ Borodin called to get rid of Chiang/1927 Shanghai purge/Communist riot in Canton/Chiang-Song marriage/Sun Yatsen burial in Nanking/Pearl Buck comment:Chiang was a soldier, did not know how to run a government/Under Chiang, China had begun to westernize/Zhang Chiang alliance
• Manchuguo set up by Japan in 1932/Chiang's army was weak compared to Japanese/Communists became powerful/Mao drove peasants to rebel, transformed the countryside into a total environment of hate/Long March/1936 Mao called for peace/Xian Incidence/1937 Battle of Shanghai/Battle of Nanking/
• Eight Route Army/Chiang retreated to the West/1939 Bombing of Chungking/Pearl Harbor/The Hump/Stillwell trained KMT soldiers in India/Communists in Yan'an
• Japan surrender/The fight over Manchuria/Russians rooted Manchuria factories/Chinese inflation
• 1948 Mao's troops began to attack in Manchuria/Nov 1948 Manchuria fall/Truman rejected Song Meiling's plea for help and USA involvement in China to be ended/Nanking fall into communist/Evacuation of westerners out of Shanghai/1949 Shanghai fall /KMT escaped to Taiwan/USA could not understand the mind of the Chinese communists/USA could not predict Great Leap Forward, Red Guards,/How to reach Chinese mind