Kang Youwei and the Hundred Days Reform
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 Cixi and other Manchu conservatives. At the beginni...
12 Loka 201926min
Losing the Tributaries: The Sino-French and Sino-Japanese Wars in Vietnam and Korea
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 episode:Emperor Qianlong: ruled China from 1735 to 1799Li...
29 Syys 201927min
Book Review of The Shining Path: Love, Madness, and Revolution in the Andes
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. This book is the first history of the Shining Pat...
18 Elo 201921min
The Self-Strengthening Movement: Too Little Too Late?
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 foreign powers by modernizing the military and promotin...
12 Elo 201925min
The Second Opium War and the End of the Taiping Civil War
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). The Qing Dynasty is weakened and the British, Fren...
3 Heinä 201931min
The Taiping Revolution
The strange story of Christian peasant revolutionaries in 19th century China. This episode is about the origins and early years of the Taiping Revolution (1850-1864). Both the early Nationalist revolu...
15 Kesä 201927min
The Opium War and the Beginning of China's Century of Humiliation
This is the first of several episodes which will give broad historical background for our upcoming discussion of the Chinese Revolution and the international spread of ideas related to the Chinese Rev...
31 Touko 201934min
Introducing the People's History of Ideas Podcast
This is a short episode just introducing you to the podcast. Matthew Rothwell is your host. The theme is the history of revolutionary ideas, starting with background to the Chinese Revolution. For Dr...
29 Touko 201912min
