20 Episodes

  1. Deng Xiaoping: Black Cat, Yellow Cat

    Published: 5/4/2018
  2. Bruce Lee: Screen Warrior

    Published: 5/3/2018
  3. Mao Zedong: The Man Who Made Modern China

    Published: 5/2/2018
  4. Factory Girls: Modern Girls, Modern Dreams

    Published: 5/1/2018
  5. Cixi: Ambivalent Empress

    Published: 4/30/2018
  6. Hong Xiuquan v Zeng Guofan: The Duellists

    Published: 4/27/2018
  7. Wang Jingwei: Revolutionary Renegade

    Published: 4/26/2018
  8. Lu Xun: Compassionate Cynic

    Published: 4/25/2018
  9. Robert Hart: Chinese Customs

    Published: 4/24/2018
  10. Zheng He: The Admiral Goes to Africa

    Published: 4/23/2018
  11. River Elegy: River and Ocean

    Published: 4/20/2018
  12. Li Qingzhao: Patriotic Poet

    Published: 4/19/2018
  13. Confucius: Becoming the Sage

    Published: 4/18/2018
  14. Kublai Khan: Cosmopolitan Conqueror

    Published: 4/17/2018
  15. Sima Qian: Grand Historian

    Published: 4/16/2018
  16. Ding Ling: Sophie, Sensation and Sex

    Published: 4/13/2018
  17. Matteo Ricci: Jesuit and Geometrist

    Published: 4/12/2018
  18. Kumarajiva: Translator Monk

    Published: 4/11/2018
  19. Chiang Kai-Shek and Soong Meiling: Asian Power Couple

    Published: 4/10/2018
  20. Wu Zetian: The Female Emperor

    Published: 4/9/2018

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Series of essays exploring Chinese history through the life stories of key personalities.