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The Pacific Century

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Written by
  
Alex Gibney

Music by
  
Robert Boress

Original language(s)
  
English

Initial release
  
15 October 1992

Number of episodes
  
10

Cast
  
Peter Coyote

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Narrated by
  
Peter Coyote

Country of origin
  
United States

Producer(s)
  
Peter Bull Alex Gibney

Number of seasons
  
1

Screenplay
  
Alex Gibney

Awards
  
News & Documentary Emmy Award for Outstanding Historical Programming - Programs

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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. Alex Gibney was the writer for the series, and Frank Gibney, his father, wrote the companion trade book, The Pacific Century: America and Asia in a Changing World. The companion college textbook, Pacific Century: The Emergence of Modern Pacific Asia, was written and edited by E. Mark Borthwick. The series was a co-production of the Pacific Basin Institute and KCTS-TV in Seattle. Principle funding was provided by the Annenberg Foundation.

Episodes

  1. The Two Coasts of China: Asia and the Challenge of the West
  2. The Meiji Revolution
  3. From the Barrel of a Gun
  4. Writers and Revolutionaries
  5. Reinventing Japan
  6. Inside Japan, Inc.
  7. Big Business and the Ghost of Confucius
  8. The Fight for Democracy
  9. Sentimental Imperialists: America in Asia
  10. The Pacific Century: The Future of the Pacific Basin

References

The Pacific Century Wikipedia