China: The Making of a Nation
Seen it?2026 | 1 seasons | 60 min | Documentary
Monday Morning Maybeearly ratingWhy it’s a Monday Morning Maybe
With a small audience and almost no lasting buzz, this one could be a tough watch. Keep your phone handy.
Based on critics, audiences, awards, box office and buzz. Details below.Is it for you?
- Who'll love it
- Made for the curious.
- The mood
- Eye-opening.
- The pace
- One season: easy to finish in a weekend or two, hour-long episodes, about 2 hours in all.
- What might put you off
- It's in French, so expect subtitles (or a dub).
China: The Making of a Nation is the story of the painful transformation of the vast Qing Empire into the Chinese nation after the 1911 revolution. Spanning more than a century up to the Xi Jinping era, the story pits the two pivotal leaders of this transformation against each other: Chiang Kai-shek, leader of the Republic of China for 47 years, and Mao Zedong, who rose from ‘red bandit’ to master of the mainland in 1949. Sworn enemies, they fought a merciless battle: first military, then diplomatic, and finally, beyond their deaths, in the conflicting memories of the Taiwanese and the Chinese of the People's Republic. Beyond their fierce hatred, the two tyrants also had much in common: a certain vision of Chinese territory and the greatness of China, the desire to regain the country's sovereignty and the quest for a Chinese identity in a nation that also includes Tibetans, Uighurs, Mongols... and a certain ability to rewrite history.
How it earned its rating
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- Reach & staying powerWeak
Limited series that reached a small audience so far
- Buzz & cultural impactWeak
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Cast & crew
Created by Anne Loussouarn
- Sarah-Jane SauvegrainMain narrator (voice)
- Thierry DebruneNarrator (voice)
- Marie-Ève DufresneNarrator (voice)
- Daniel LafourcadeNarrator (voice)
- Jean-François PagèsNarrator (voice)
- Benoît RivillonNarrator (voice)
- Romain RougierNarrator (voice)