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Title: History of China: The Roots of Madness - CIA Cold War Documentary Film (1967)
Added: May 15, 2011
Author: nologorecords
Duration: 77:54
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DVD: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B001BXTPUG/ref=as_li_tf_tl?ie=UTF8&tag=doc06-20&linkCode=as2&camp=217145&creative=399349&creativeASIN=B001BXTPUGhttp://thefilmarchive.org/China: The Roots of Madness is a 1967 Cold War era, made-for-TV documentary film produced by David L. Wolper, written by Pulitzer Prize winning journalist Theodore H. White with production cost funded by a donation from John and Paige Curran. It won an Emmy Award in the documentary category.The film attempts to analyze the Anti-Western sentiment in China from the official American's perspective, covering 170 years of China's political history, from Boxer Rebellion of the Qing Dynasty to Red Guards of Cultural Revolution. The film focuses on the power struggle between the Kuomintang and the Communist Party of China, amid heavy political intervention from Moscow, with Sun Yat-sen, Chiang Kai-shek and Mao Zedong playing the pivotal role at the center stage.The documentary film was made for television in 1967 -- during the Cold War era. It was written by Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Theodore H. White, directed by Mel Stuart, edited by William T. Cartwright and produced by David L. Wolper. Production costs were funded by a donation from John and Paige Curran. The film has been released under Creative Commons license. White's access to important political figures of the time allowed him to create some rare footage, which included the wedding of Chang Kai-shek and the funeral of Sun Yat-sen. The film won an Emmy Award in the documentary category.As evidenced by his commentary throughout the films, White, Time magazine's China correspondent during World War II, was scathing about the People's Republic of China. Remarking that Chinese had been suffering in a 100-year tragedy, he added:"There are 700 millions Chinese [in 1967], one quarter of humane kind, who are taught to hate, their growing power is the world's greatest threat to peace enlightenment. 50 years of torment, bred madness..."For 50 years, Americans have failed to help the Chinese to find "some entry to the modern world", as the Chinese have "been transformed from our greatest friend into our greatest enemy", as the Chinese have fallen into the vicious cycle of "from the tyranny of Confucius of the Manchu Emperor to the tyranny of communism and Mao".White referred to Empress Dowager Cixi as "China's evil spirit... a Manchu concubine...said to have poisoned her own son upon his throne, install her infant nephew as the emperor, killed his mother, and then imprisoned him in 1898".Pearl Buck on the Boxer Rebellion:"Empress Dowager had issued an decree that all white people are to be killed, and many have been killed, especially in the north of Shandong, men, women and children of the missionary."White's impression on the downfall of Qing Dynasty: "...and then it vanished, simply vanished, the Manchu Dynasty disappeared overnight, nothing like that had ever happen in all the history, 2000 years of tradition, the whole structure of the imperial confucianism, political thought, dissolving to dust..."White's impression on post-Manchu Empire China:"...out of this turbulence, there appeared two types of Asian leaders, arch symbols, the the man of gun, and the man of idea, and these two types of gunman and the dreamer, have perplexed all our efforts in Asia for 50 years since, and they still perplexed and haunted all our policy, even today..."White's impression on Sun Yat-sen:"...was a man of dream, the dream of China, powerful, free of emperors and foreigners, made him from his youth a revolutionary...Slowly from the early 1920, Sun Yatsen had somehow built a government, a tiny southern foothold at Canton, ringed by hostile warlords. By 1924 the ageing revolutionary had learned, idea and gun must go together...in 1923 he tells the New York Times: We have lost hope of help from America, England, France, the only country that show any sign of helping us in the south is the Soviet government of Russia..."White on Kuomingtang left wing: "[they] no longer trust their army leader at the front. Borodin is urging: 'Get rid of Chiang Kaishek.' In four short years, the communist had grown 60,000 members. To hear the left wing Nationalist: 'No revolution is completed, until peasants own their land, and workers their factories.' Chiang disagreed."While the film won an Emmy Award in the documentary category soon after its release, contemporary critics have criticised his "callous and condescending" portrayal of Chinese. Film Threat remarked that White never attempted to take on board the Chinese viewpoint, and points out there were unconfirmed rumours that the CIA was involved in the film's making.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/China:_The_Roots_of_Madness
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Youtube Comments: 566
EpiDemic117 Says:
May 21, 2012 - I think you are looking at it in the wrong view.The United States so far while it may have a couple of territories. Isn't imperial or colonial. There are certain areas it has occupied. But once done with restructuring. We have pretty much let go and let it be. Japan is a prime example. The constitution was restructured.Then the country was set free to operate on it's own. Which it has done successfully.Noone that i know of will argue against the U.S constitution for it is a really SOLID document
EpiDemic117 Says:
May 21, 2012 - But most arguments will go towards Presidencies. Which some i do find valid. But the PRC indeed provides less of a free system. But since it had it's economic reform. That economic freedom will lead to political freedom if done correctly. Both countries have their own interests.
EpiDemic117 Says:
May 21, 2012 - The U.S isn't a democracy. Nobody will vouch for a pure democracy either. Why? What would happen if the 51% majority votes that the 49% should be shot? That's a democracy for you. Laws can be put in place as barriers that protect individuals from harm that is committed without reason. Having a system with rules that require things to be done in a process really helps. .
EpiDemic117 Says:
May 21, 2012 - China really has to go back to it's roots. The PRC has in a way ruined the true Chinese culture in a way. I'd rather see a yellow flag with a dragon and the sun than a flag that is nothing but red with stars. Souless and lifeless like most communist oligarchies. Chinas history before though was complete BADASS!! Lots of blood shed yet vibrant with life and invention as well as innovation. .
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SuperVietnam1994 Says:
May 23, 2012 - Ha don`t think that the western people have been more peaceful than we asians. Europes history is also full of wars. There were WW1 and WW2 because of Europe and there were a war which lasted 80 years and one which lasted 30 years. Wars happened in the history of every country.
SuperVietnam1994 Says:
May 23, 2012 - Well but the US also played world police too often. Don`t forget that the USA used marionett regimes and dictatorships as friends just because they were anti communists. And I can tell you a lot of examples where the USA overthrew democratic goverments which had been elected by free elections from their own people in Chile (Allende), Guatemala (Arbenz), Iran (Mossadegh) and after that CIA operations dictator got the power and became friends or partners of US like Pinochet or dictator Castillo.
SuperVietnam1994 Says:
May 23, 2012 - Fascism and communism was invented by western people. The first real fascist was an italian dictator: Benito Mussolini. He is called the father of fascism. And communism as an ideology was written down by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels also two western people. As colonialism also came from Europe.
silencerainbows Says:
May 24, 2012 - Again, thanks to the Jewish invention of communism (Karl Marx) his real Jewish name was Moses Mordechai Levy, China was sucked into the cauldron of Marxism which was a waepon to destroy once thriving nations with a great heritage and culture. Just Like Russia millions were slaughtered. In Russia communism killed close to 30 million in China is was closer to 50 million. Germany had to be destroyed in two world wars fomented by international Jewry because she refused to embrace slavery.
silencerainbows Says:
May 24, 2012 - This is hypocritical propaganda movie.
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May 24, 2012 - Great video
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claudeleason Says:
May 25, 2012 - Thanks a lot for uploading this. China is an old civilization suffered but survived. Let's pray for its future to be prosperous and peaceful.
satinsolstice Says:
May 26, 2012 - "China's growing power is the world's greatest threat to peace and life"?!?!?WHAT ARE YOU SMOKING?
andcui Says:
May 26, 2012 - The real China is the REPUBLIC OF CHINAAAAA!!!!! i love 中华民国
aleeandrew Says:
May 26, 2012 - I agree. China is no threat to anyone for anther 100years.
MikeyCreation Says:
May 26, 2012 - propaganda by the white westerners
silencerainbows Says:
May 27, 2012 - Yes I agree and I didn't mean to single out the Jews as a people. But the is a small cabal of very powerful individuals like the Rothschild, the Rockefeller. Warburg the Illuminati etc.But it is more important I believe to focus on the love of God and what Jesus was teaching. Only love and forgiveness can overcome evil. Some people seem to choose evil but maybe they are deceived thinking that their actions will bring good.
mihail9988 Says:
May 27, 2012 - Ewww propganda piece of shit from CIA
Requiemxtoxinnocence Says:
May 27, 2012 - " The tyranny of Confucius." What does that mean? Confucius wasn't a tyrant but a philosopher, one who taught about ethics and proper rule of government. He of all people sought perfect virtue and not tyranny and oppression.
foresakenlion Says:
May 27, 2012 - Communism is Democracy as it's based on Materialism as taught by Democrutis, It isn't the Democratic Party, it's the Party of The Democrutisian Order, pointing out that Communism and Nationalism, both lead to Oligarchies which turn into Despotic Tyrannies under a Makeshift God King, at which point the cycle repeats.
foresakenlion Says:
May 27, 2012 - So the Chinese believe Confucious to be a Nephilim, half Angel half Mortal, interesting.
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