Episode 3

S1 E3: Andrew Graham-Dixon charts the glorious rise and calamitous fall of China’s last dynasty. Its rulers were so entranced by Western art that they failed to grasp the rise of Western dominance until it was too late. This age of crisis led to bloody revolution and rebirth. After Mao’s Cultural Revolution and Tiananmen Square, does its new art reveal another side to the modern China we think we know?