The Dutch Golden Age and the Rise of the Middle Class
Professor explains how the Dutch Golden Age gave birth to the Middle Class. With the transition from feudalism to market economics and from Catholicism to Calvinism, people changed their focus from ac...
24 Touko 1h 10min
Rule, Britannia!
How did England -- a poor and divided island -- become the world's greatest empire?In this talk to his Chinese high school students, Jiang Xueqin explains that England succeeded because it was a poor ...
24 Touko 1h 8min
Shakespeare's Language of Empire
How did Shakespeare father the British empire?In this talk to his Beijing high school students, Jiang Xueqin explains that it was Shakespeare's innovations in syntax and diction that transformed Engli...
24 Touko 1h 18min
Empire of Democracy
Oscar Wilde once quipped: "America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilisation in between."What did he mean by this?In this talk to his Beijing high school students,...
24 Touko 1h 6min
Dostoevsky and the Soul of Russia
Why did Putin invade Ukraine?In this lecture to his Beijing high school students, Jiang Xueqin explains that the war in Ukraine is a clash of civilizations. In his novels "Crime and Punishment" and "B...
24 Touko 1h 14min
Kant, Hegel, and the Theory of Everything
What is the legacy of Immanuel Kant, considered our greatest philosopher?In this talk to his Beijing high school students, Jiang Xueqin explains that Kant's insights had a tremendous impact on the dev...
24 Touko 1h 8min
What Marx Got Wrong
Why was Karl Marx -- who believed that industrial capitalism would evolve into a worker's paradise -- wrong? In this talk to his Beijing high school students, Jiang Xueqin explains that while Marx und...
24 Touko 1h 16min
How Modernism Ruined Everything
Freud proposed the theory of the Oedipal Complex. Where did he get the idea? Why did it become so popular?In this talk to his Beijing high school students, Jiang Xueqin explains that Freud developed h...
24 Touko 1h 3min
