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Liberals Becoming Marxists: The New Culture and May 4th Movements (1915-1919)
Season 1 Episode 13
In this episode we explore the move from liberalism toward Marxism among progressive intellectuals in the 1915-1919 period, and how those ideas began…
6 years, 1 month ago
The Young Mao Zedong
Season 1 Episode 12
In this episode we look at Mao Zedong’s childhood, family background, and see what he was thinking in 1912.
Further reading:
Edgar Snow, Red Star Over…
6 years, 2 months ago
The 1911 Revolution
Season 1 Episode 11
The overthrow of the Qing Dynasty, followed by the first years of the Republic of China.
Further reading on the 1911 Revolution:
Joseph Esherick and C…
6 years, 2 months ago
Revolutionary Voices from the End of the Qing Dynasty
Season 1 Episode 10
In this episode, we explore some of the major voices of revolution from the decade preceding the end of the Qing Dynasty in 1912: Zou Rong, Qiu Jin a…
6 years, 3 months ago
The Boxer Uprising of 1900
Season 1 Episode 9
In the face of foreign aggression and natural disaster, masses of Chinese people turn to traditional folk religion and martial arts to attempt to thr…
6 years, 4 months ago
Kang Youwei and the Hundred Days Reform
Season 1 Episode 8
In the wake of the Sino-Japanese War, Kang Youwei works with the Guangxu Emperor to try to replicate Japan's Meiji reforms, before being crushed by C…
6 years, 4 months ago
Losing the Tributaries: The Sino-French and Sino-Japanese Wars in Vietnam and Korea
Season 1 Episode 7
In this episode we do some Q&A and then cover the Sino-French War of 1884-1885 and the Sino-Japanese War of 1894-1895.
A couple names from this episod…
6 years, 5 months ago
Book Review of The Shining Path: Love, Madness, and Revolution in the Andes
Season 1 Episode 6
A review of the new book about the civil war in Peru, The Shining Path: Love, Madness, and Revolution in the Andes, by Orin Starn and Miguel La Serna…
6 years, 6 months ago
The Self-Strengthening Movement: Too Little Too Late?
Season 1 Episode 5
This episode focuses on the 1862-1895 period, when the Empress Dowager Cixi ruled and reformers tried to make China strong enough to stand up to fore…
6 years, 6 months ago
The Second Opium War and the End of the Taiping Civil War
Season 1 Episode 4
The episode wraps up the events of the Taiping Revolution (1850-1864) and also deals with the events and outcome of the Second Opium War (1856-1860).…
6 years, 8 months ago