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Yongle moves the capital north to Beijing and builds the Forbidden City.
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Michael Wood describes the first meeting of the Chinese Communist Party in Shanghai 1921.
Michael Wood visits the last surviving communist outpost in today's China.
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Qiu Jin was the tragic star of the failed revolution of 1907, against the Qing Dynasty.
To learn about China's greatest poet, Michael Wood goes back to school!
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Xi'an - the Tang Dynasty capital with half a million people was the world's greatest city.
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Michael Wood looks at the opening of the Silk Road & 'the beginnings of universal history'
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Michael Wood joins a million pilgrims at a temple festival for China’s ancient gods.
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Under the Qing Dynasty Muslim culture had a new vitality – including all women’s mosques.
