NOVA

The Genius That Was China: Empires in Collision (2) (17x7)

Air date: Mar 27, 1990

This episode is part-two of NOVA's instigative report on China and the country's battle in keeping up with western technology. From the fifteenth to the eighteen century, European nations traveled westward to explore new countries to trade with. China excluded itself from its western neighbors, and NOVA wants to know why