Presenter Andrew Graham-Dixon explores the art of China from its early prehistory to modern day. It often notes the influences and connections to western cultures. There is real beauty and understanding of China's long history reflected in the art. It's 3 hour long episodes. It's a solid BBC TV documentary.
2 Reviews
Producer is looking for what he wants from China arts
caiyilin-sh31 December 2014
Warning: Spoilers
This is a great show on some aspects. Especially that you can see a lot of precious art objects which are very hard to see at this level of detail.
The problem is in the comments. Political implies are everywhere in the show. Except the episode three which describes the China art in 20 century which has a good reason to mention PLA, you can find PLA soldiers in all three episodes, without much reason. In the episode three, PLA is also linked to first emperor's terracotta soldiers. So British armies are the ghost of Rome Matrix? Protect upper chamber's benefit till the last drop of blood like in Rome? I'm sorry, just realized English are the barbarians to Rome.
In the content related to the first China emperor, the comments mentioned to have people built huge grave for him. And link him to Mao, Stalin and Hitler. Needless to say it's very offensive to link anyone to Hitler, the Stonehenge must be built under the oversight of a human right group plus an union.
The comment also describes Japan's invasion to China starts by a "dispute" of a missing soldier. What would Jewish people think if China TV says Hitler had a "dispute" with them in WWII?
In the end, many symbolism and conclusions in the comments are not even right. Documentary suppose to be mutual, stop inventing contents.
I respect the professional work on BBC documentary movies like Life Story, Planet Earth. Leave your ugly and sometime offensive political comments out of history and arts please.
The problem is in the comments. Political implies are everywhere in the show. Except the episode three which describes the China art in 20 century which has a good reason to mention PLA, you can find PLA soldiers in all three episodes, without much reason. In the episode three, PLA is also linked to first emperor's terracotta soldiers. So British armies are the ghost of Rome Matrix? Protect upper chamber's benefit till the last drop of blood like in Rome? I'm sorry, just realized English are the barbarians to Rome.
In the content related to the first China emperor, the comments mentioned to have people built huge grave for him. And link him to Mao, Stalin and Hitler. Needless to say it's very offensive to link anyone to Hitler, the Stonehenge must be built under the oversight of a human right group plus an union.
The comment also describes Japan's invasion to China starts by a "dispute" of a missing soldier. What would Jewish people think if China TV says Hitler had a "dispute" with them in WWII?
In the end, many symbolism and conclusions in the comments are not even right. Documentary suppose to be mutual, stop inventing contents.
I respect the professional work on BBC documentary movies like Life Story, Planet Earth. Leave your ugly and sometime offensive political comments out of history and arts please.
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