For more than 4,000 years, China has risen, collapsed, divided, reunited, been invaded, rebuilt, and transformed again and again.

From the Shang and Zhou dynasties to Qin Shi Huang, the Han Empire, the Tang and Song golden ages, Mongol conquest, the Ming and Qing dynasties, the Opium Wars, revolution, civil war, Mao Zedong, Deng Xiaoping, and modern China - this video tells the extraordinary story of how one of the world’s oldest civilizations survived thousands of years of upheaval.

How did China endure dynasties, invasions, rebellions, revolutions, famine, war, and political transformation - and emerge as one of the most powerful countries in the world today?

This is the entire story of China.

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