The Story of China - Episode 6: The Age of Revolution

This Video Response Worksheet and Key is based on the PBS documentary series “The Story of China - Episode 6: The Age of Revolution.”

You will receive a Video Response Worksheet and Key in PDF format.

Video Response Worksheets will turn your history lesson into a rich educational experience that keeps students attentive, engaged, and accountable. The questions are designed so that they occur at a regular pace to keep the students engaged but not overloaded. They are also designed so that a review of the completed worksheet gives students a basic overall summary of the video.

This episode is approximately 55 minutes long.

From the producer:

SERIES DESCRIPTION: Traveling from the Silk Road to the Yellow Sea, Michael Wood explores the history of the world’s newest superpower. A thrilling and moving epic of the world’s oldest continuous state with the landscapes, peoples, and stories that made today’s China.

ABOUT THIS EPISODE: This last film tells the tale of the great Taiping Rebellion in which 20 million died, and the fall of the Empire in 1911. Michael visits Hong Kong’s Peninsula Hotel, jewel of the Jazz age, and follows Mao on the Long March to Yan’an, the base of the communist revolution. He meets a survivor of the Japanese massacre of Nanjing, describes the communist victory, and ends with Mao’s death and the boom time of the last thirty years. The series ends as it began at home with the warmth of the Chinese family.