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Music by Robert Boress Original language(s) English Initial release 15 October 1992 Number of episodes 10 | 8.2/10 Country of origin United States Producer(s) Peter BullAlex Gibney Number of seasons 1 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Awards News & Documentary Emmy Award for Outstanding Historical Programming - Programs Similar Enron: The Smartest Guys in th, Client 9: The Rise and Fall o, Taxi to the Dark Side, Going Clear: Scientolo, Freakonomics |
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
- The Two Coasts of China: Asia and the Challenge of the West
- The Meiji Revolution
- From the Barrel of a Gun
- Writers and Revolutionaries
- Reinventing Japan
- Inside Japan, Inc.
- Big Business and the Ghost of Confucius
- The Fight for Democracy
- Sentimental Imperialists: America in Asia
- The Pacific Century: The Future of the Pacific Basin
References
The Pacific Century Wikipedia(Text) CC BY-SA