David Willey on China in 1965

Name: David Willey on China in 1965
Uploaded: 2012-09-04T15:58:18.000Z
Duration: 2 min 29 s
Description: The BBC's David Willey reflects on China in 1965, an unmechanised, predominantly agriculturalised country about to experience the Cultural Revolution, and catches a glimpse of Mao Zedong.

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The BBC's David Willey describes the China he witnessed in 1965 - an unmechanised, predominantly agriculturalised country about to experience the Cultural Revolution under Mao Zedong - over footage he shot at the time in Beijing, where Willey also catches a glimpse of the "Great Helmsman" himself.

Read more about David Willey's return to Beijing.

Magazine

4 September 2012