China: A Century of Revolution (1997): Cast

This six‑hour PBS documentary offers a candid view of China’s turbulent century, using rare archival footage, scholarly commentary and eyewitness testimony. It chronicles war, foreign invasion, the power struggle between Mao Zedong and Chiang Kai‑shek, Mao’s radical reforms, and Deng Xiaoping’s shift blending communist rule with a market economy.

• SW Director Sue Williams

• MZ Mao Zedong as themselves
• DX Deng Xiaoping as themselves
• WL Will Lyman as Narrator
• CK Chiang Kai-shek as themselves

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