China's Capitalist Revolution

When Chairman Mao died in 1976, he left China in chaos and poverty. He was succeeded by Deng Xiaoping, who overturned Maoism and taught the Chinese to love capitalism. But Deng's crash course in capitalism went wrong when inflation grew and workers lost jobs.

By 1989, China faced economic disaster. Student unrest reached a boiling point. Now, 20 years after the tragic events in Tiananmen Square in Beijing, this program reveals an interpretation of the motives of the demonstrators that may well overturn the conventional view in the West.