Playing the China Card: Nixon and Mao

Identity Statement

Reference code(s)	: GB 0097 PLAYING THE CHINA CARD
Held at	: British Library of Political and Economic Science   Click here to find out how to view this collection at http://www.lse.ac.uk/library ›
Full title	: Playing the China Card: Nixon and Mao
Date(s)	: 1999
Level of description	: Collection (fonds)
Extent	: 3 large boxes
Name of creator(s)	: Brook Lapping Productions Ltd

Context

Administrative/Biographical history:

Playing the China Card was made in 1999 by Brook Lapping Productions Ltd in conjunction with Channel 4 and PBS.

Content

Scope and content/abstract:

Material relating to the documentary film series Playing the China Card: Nixon and Mao, 1999, concerning the relationship between the USA and China since the end of World War Two, made by Brook Lapping Productions Ltd and broadcast on Channel 4 as two programmes in 1999, including interview transcripts with US, Chinese and Russian contributors, notably William Frank Buckley, General Alexander Meigs Haig, Henry Alfred Kissinger, James Addison Baker III, General Brent Scowcroft, Anatoly Fedorovich Dobrynin, Fang Lizhi and Ji Chaozhu; complete post-production scripts of the two programmes; a file of questions put to participants for filmed interviews; transcripts from sections of David Frost's interview with President Richard Nixon (1977), relating to US relations with China; books, articles, essays and pamphlets used as background material for the series; background documents, including transcripts of US government archive material, mainly relating to the Nixon administration, and pre-publication extracts from The Kissinger Transcripts (National Security Archives, 1999) by William Burr.

Access & Use

Language/scripts of material:
English, Chinese, Russian

System of arrangement:

The collection is arranged in sections as outlined in the Scope and Content.

Conditions governing access:

Open.

Conditions governing reproduction:

Copyright retained by donor.

Finding aids:

Box list available.

Archival Information

Archival history:

Immediate source of acquisition:

Given by Brooke Lapping Productions Ltd in 1999.

Allied Materials

Related material:

The British Library of Political and Economic Science holds material relating to other programmes created by Brian Lapping Associates, namely The Second Russian Revolution (Ref: 2RR), The Washington Version (Ref: Washington), The Seventies, and Woolly Al walks the Kitty Back (Ref: Falklands), and by Brook Associates, namely The Last Europeans (Ref: Last Europeans) and The Thatcher Factor. The Liddell Hart Centre for Military Archives, King's College London, also holds material relating to documentaries made by Brian Lapping Associates, namely Woolly Al walks the kitty back, The Washington version, The fall of the wall, The Death of Yugoslavia, and The 50 Years' War: Israel and the Arabs.

Publication note:

Description Notes

Archivist's note:
Sources: British Library of Political and Economic Science Archives catalogue. Compiled by Sarah Aitchison as part of the RSLP AIM25 project.

Rules or conventions:
Compiled in compliance with General International Standard Archival Description, ISAD(G), second edition, 2000; National Council on Archives Rules for the Construction of Personal, Place and Corporate Names, 1997.

Date(s) of descriptions:
Mar 2001