The Pacific Century

The Pacific Century

Infobox Film
name = The Pacific Century


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producer = Peter Bull
Alex Gibney
writer = Alex Gibney
narrator = Peter Coyote
music = Robert Boress
cinematography = Samuel Painter
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distributor = Public Broadcasting Service
released = 1992
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website = http://www.pomona.edu/pbi/pacificcentury/
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imdb_id = 0287622

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 volume, "The Pacific Century: America and Asia in a Changing World". The series was a co-production of the Pacific Basin Institute and KCTS-TV in Seattle.

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

External links

* [http://www.pomona.edu/pbi/pacificcentury/ Pacific Basin Institute at Pomona College] - co-producer of the series
*imdb title|id=0287622|title=The Pacific Century


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