New BBC Documentary Tells China's History

New BBC Documentary Tells China’s History

By YANG SAI

【期刊名称】今日中国：英文版 【年(卷),期】2016(000)005 【总页数】3

【关键词】英国广播公司;中国历史;历史学家;纪录片;电视节目;PBS;屏幕;播出 A BBC documentary on the history of China presented by distinguished British historian Michael Wood recently aired on U.K. screens. Jointly invested by the U.S. PBS, the six-episode TV program, entitled The Story of China, looked at Chinese history spanning 4,000 years.

Michael Wood, who also wrote The Story of China, talked to us about his latest production. A specialist in British history, Wood has also become something of a connoisseur of Chinese history thanks to the three years he spent filming this documentary.

Warmth of Chinese Tradition

“An American sinologist wrote that the Chinese today have lost their warmth of kinship. I told my colleagues that I was going to retreive and present it to our viewers,” Wood said.

Wood’s roommate at Oxford was a Sinologist often visited by Chinese scholars. Wood listened intently to their discussions at the dinner table, and paid his first visit to China in the 1980s.

He said candidly that China today is much different from what it was in