China Stories summer special: The best of This Week in China's HIstory

Sinica Podcast

English - August 24, 2023 18:00 - 1 hour - 62.1 MB - ★★★★★ - 545 ratings
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Previous Episode: Wargaming a Taiwan invasion scenario: Lyle Goldstein on the CSIS wargame “The First Battle of the Next War"

Next Episode: The Rise and Fall of the EAST: MIT's Yasheng Huang on his new book

Something different this week on Sinica: A selection of "This Week in China's History" columns by James Carter, all narrated by Kaiser with a little interstitial music by Chunqiu (Spring & Autumn).

The columns:

Not just a metaphor: Dragons of imperial China show us how people lived (1517)The ‘Empress of China’ and the beginning of U.S.-China trade (1784)The rise of Empress Dowager Cixi (1861)In the 7th century, a Chinese coup of Shakespearean proportions (626)Titanic’s six Chinese survivors tell a story that goes far beyond a shipwreck (1912)The problem with Mao’s ‘continuous’ revolution (1967)The Battle of Red Cliffs and the blurring of fact and fiction (208-209)

The music: snippets from

The HuntsmanThe Last Page (intro)The SubcelestialA Call from AfarBetween the Mountains and the SeaBorn of the StormBorn of the Storm (again)A New DayThe Last Page (outro)

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