Chronicle (1966)

China: Travellers in the Celestial Empire (1980x7)

Air date: Nov 12, 1980

China is now once again raising its bamboo curtain. For centuries this vast civilisation has fascinated the West. Using the actual accounts of travellers who observed China at first hand, and beginning with the most famous of them all, Marco Polo, the programme reveals the strange and shifting relationship between East and West.