The Pacific Century

Season

1992

Canada

8.4

The Pacific Century was a 1992 PBS Emmy Award winning ten part documentary series narrated by Peter Coyote about the rise of the Pacific Rim economies.

Episode List

The Two Coasts of China: Asia and the Challenge of the West

S1 • E1

The Two Coasts of China: Asia and the Challenge of the West

Focuses on the changing relationship of China.

S1 • E2

The Meiji Revolution

Focuses on the evolution of Japan into a modern-day powerful society.

S1 • E3

From the Barrel of a Gun

The lives of Vietnamese revolutionary Ho Chi Minh and the Indonesian leader Sukarno reflect the nationalist movements in those former colonies of Western powers.

S1 • E4

Writers and Revolutionaries

Chinese writer Lu Xan and Japanese right-wing philosopher Kita Ikki are profiled as intellectuals who sought to resolve the conflict between the national character and international standing of their homelands.

S1 • E5

Reinventing Japan

This program examines the utter transformation of the pacific Basin region in the wake of World War II. The expanding- and often contentious- American and Japanese relationship included the ambiguous roles of conqueror and conquered.

S1 • E6

Inside Japan, Inc.

The political, historical, and cultural underpinnings of Japan's post-war economic miracle are considered, both in the wealth it brought to the Pacific Basin and in its creation of a new Asian model of capitalism.