Historian Rana Mitter on ideology in China's "New Era" — live from Salzburg, Austria
Sinica Podcast
English - March 14, 2024 14:00 - 1 hour - 61.9 MB - ★★★★★ - 545 ratingsBusiness Society & Culture china news international relations china economy china politics sichuan shenzhen shanghai politics news hangzhou Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
Historian Rana Mitter joins Sinica this week in a show taped live in Salzburg, Austria at the Salzburg Global Seminar, in which he discusses efforts by Party ideologists to create a Confucian-Marxist synthesis that can serve as an enduring foundation for a modern Chinese worldview in the self-proclaimed “new era.”
01:28 – Is China a revisionist power?
02:16 – Right-sizing China's global ambitions
09:27 — How China utilizes historical narratives to support political ends
10:43 – Marxism and China's Historical Understanding
17:07 – China's "New Era" and Party history
28:38 – The Confucian-Marxist Synthesis
56:58 – China's ability to reinvent itself
1:02:15 – What’s the next big question?
A complete transcript is available at the Sinica Substack.
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