Communist China Roots Of Madness Reel-1

Shot List:

R1:00:01:50;17

Sign and barbed-wire topped border fence at the border between the British Crown Colony of Hong Cong and Communist China. Shows Hong Kong police patrolling border fence with a dog.

R1:00:03:31;21

Various scenes depicting the mysterious land of ancient China. Shows a Chinese Pagoda, Chinese arch bridge, CU Chinese Dragon Statue, Chinese Serpent Statue. Peasants planting rice in a rice paddy (field).

R1:00:04:36;02

Still images of Confucius. Image of the Son of Heaven, a universal emperor that ruled “all under heaven”. Footage of the Great Wall of China.

R1:00:05:28;04

Still images that depict the start of the opium trade and the following first Opium War that broke out in 1839 between Great Britain and the Qing Empire of China.

R1:00:06:55;08

Images of the Dowager Empress Cixi (Cixi also spelled Tzu-hsi) and Li Lianying. Start of the Boxer Rebellion, a Chinese secret organization called the Society of the Righteous and Harmonious Fists led a violent anti-foreign and anti-Christian an uprising in China. Pearl S. Buck speaks on the killing of Missionaries and other foreigns in China during the Boxer Rebellion. Siege of the International Legations in 1900 in Beijin (Peking) China. Shows sandbagged foreign embassies in Peking (Beijin), China, Capital of the Qing Empire or the Qing Dynasty or the Manchu Dynasty as navies from around the world rushed troops to fight the Boxer rebels. Victory was swift, punishment ruthless. Show severed human heads on poles. Shows American Marines China after the end of the Boxer uprising.

R1:00:10:37;00

Shows life of Chinese peasants after the Boxer rebellion. Animated map showing the great Yellow River Valley with Peking as the Manchu capital of that region. Scenes of Chinese in that region of China. In the center of the map the mighty Yangtze River Valley and the location of Shanghai, Nanking, Hankow (Hankou), and Chunking.