En iyi History Revolutions podcastleri (2024)

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S02E01 Reintroducing the Chinese Revolutions Podcast 11:45

4M ago11:45

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S02E01 Reintroducing the Chinese Revolutions Podcast This is a rambling episode pushed out to get the ball rolling, getting this podcast going again. The next big thing on the agenda is the Boxer Rebellion. We'll do some episodes in the run up to the Boxer Rebellion, and then we'll spend some good time on the next major revolutionary inflection poi…

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S01E42 Taiping Rebellion: Epilogue 32:46

1y ago32:46

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S01E42 Taiping Rebellion: Epilogue In this episode, we finish up our coverage of the Taiping Rebellion, as such. In following episodes, we'll do a little more with how the roots in the succeeding era come on from interactions between the Qing Dynasty government and foreign powers. We follow the final chapter of Autumn in the Heavenly Kingdom: China…

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S01E41: Taiping Rebellion: The Siege of Nanjing 47:02

1y ago47:02

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S01E41: Taiping Rebellion: The Siege of Nanjing In this episode, we deal with the Siege of Nanjing. As the extremely brutal culmination of years of already brutal fighting, the Qing loyalist forces of Zeng Guofan finally storm the Taiping capital and put a permanent end to the top leadership of the rebellion. Again, drawing on Autumn in the Heavenl…

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S01E40 Fast Forwarding to the End of the Taiping Rebellion 1:02:15

1y ago1:02:15

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S01E40 Fast Forwarding to the End of the Taiping Rebellion In this episode, I take a rambling skim through several chapters of Autumn in the Heavenly Kingdom. There is a lot of content I want to get to, other than the blow by blow of the Taiping Rebellion. I'm fast forwarding to the end of this one so we can get through it and get on to other revol…

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S01E39 Taiping Rebellion: Siege of Anqing, On the Edge of a Knife 34:30

1y ago34:30

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S01E39 Taiping Rebellion: Siege of Anqing, On the Edge of a Knife Some points of review on where we left the Taiping Rebellion story. We're getting back into the Taiping Rebellion. We'll be following the story of Zeng Guofan most closely. For Zeng Guofan, dogged determination and luck keep him in the game. If You'd Like to Support the Podcast Subsc…

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S01E38 We’re Back! Thoughts on the Future of the Podcast 21:31

1y ago21:31

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S01E38 We're Back! Thoughts on the Future of the Podcast We're back from break! While I've been away, I've still been doing reading on China and thinking about the podcast, thinking about how to keep moving it forward. I'll probably move to a more modular approach: 2-3 episodes on a topic, a person, an event. Episodes to tie the narrative together.…

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S01E37 Taiping Rebellion: Taiping Propaganda Under Hong Rengan 23:22

1+ y ago23:22

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S01E37 Taiping Rebellion: Taiping Propaganda Under Hong Rengan Here we go, grinding back into gear with this year's episodes. This episode's title addresses one of the main actual insights in the episode, not quite what it's about. Hong Rengan is working on planning the modern government structure of the future of the Taiping government apparatus. …

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S01E36 Taiping Rebellion: Other Foreign Visitors to the Taiping 27:23

1+ y ago27:23

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S01E36 Taiping Rebellion: Other Foreign Visitors to the Taiping In this episode, we look at more of the visitors to Hong Rengan, effective foreign minister for the Taiping. First is Griffith John, a Welsh missionary. He came on a factfinding mission to see what Nanjing was like under the Taiping. He thought the Taiping were very wrong, religiously …

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S01E35 Taiping Rebellion: Issachar Roberts 23:40

1+ y ago23:40

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S01E35 Taiping Rebellion: Issachar Roberts In the present look at Hong Rengan in the Taiping hierarchy, we are looking at some of the foreigners who drifted over to the Taiping side. This episode focuses on eccentric loose cannon missionary Issachar Roberts. In this episode, we see an example of how the Taiping were a little "too Chinese" to make a…

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S01E34 Taiping Rebellion: Foreigners and Revolutions 20:53

1+ y ago20:53

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S01E34 Taiping Rebellion: Foreigners and Revolutions In this episode we're shifting back to look at the Taiping side of the Taiping Rebellion. We look at how the Taiping Rebellion works out to be a failed, an incomplete revolution. It brings out certain problems that future revolutions will resolve, but it fails in certain critical ways. We further…

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S01E33 Taiping Rebellion: Siege of Anqing Begins 29:29

1+ y ago29:29

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S01E33 Taiping Rebellion: Siege of Anqing Begins In this episode, we wrap up a bunch of episodes on Zeng Guofan. We talk about the human element in war, how Zeng Guofan is conserving his troops' morale and will to fight, and how he's taking on much larger numbers through careful strategy and tactics. The American Civil War (1861-1865) was contempor…

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S01E32 Taiping Rebellion: Zeng Guofan Perfects His Strategy 32:29

1+ y ago32:29

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S01E32 Taiping Rebellion: Zeng Guofan Perfects His Strategy In this episode, we see Zeng Guofan start to get a grip on the task of fighting the Taiping Rebellion. He has to balance between the political necessities of showing his troops that fighting far from home is a way to protect home and achieving strategic results for the emperor. Zeng Guofan…

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S01E31 Taiping Rebellion: Zeng Guofan Starts Attacking 35:38

1+ y ago35:38

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S01E31 Taiping Rebellion: Zeng Guofan Starts Attacking In this episode, we go over the organization of Zeng Guofan's army and the first few years of his campaigns against the Taiping rebels. We are following the book Autumn in the Heavenly Kingdom: China, the West, and the Epic Story of the Taiping Civil War by Stephen R. Platt for this episode. Mo…

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S01E30 Taiping Rebellion: Zeng Guofan Builds His Army 30:49

1+ y ago30:49

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S01E30 Taiping Rebellion: Zeng Guofan Builds His Army In this episode, we look at the process that Zeng Guofan went through to build his army. When he was in Hunan to mourn the death of his mother, in 1853 he accepted the mission from the emperor to take charge of military affairs in the province. Ordinarily, the Han elements of the Qing army had a…

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S01E29 Taiping Rebellion: Introducing Zeng Guofan 18:59

1+ y ago18:59

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S01E29 Taiping Rebellion: Introducing Zeng Guofan This week we regroup and look at the big picture of what the Taiping Rebellion is showing about the theme of our podcast, and we introduce Zeng Guofan, a guy we here at Chinese Revolutions (we as in the "more fun to say 'we' than 'I' because it makes it seem like I've got a whole department") have b…

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S01E28 Taiping Rebellion: Unequal Treaties and Modernizing China 26:41

1+ y ago26:41

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S01E28 Taiping Rebellion: Unequal Treaties and Modernizing China This week, we're talking about how the unequal treaties forced on China during the Second Opium War further clarified anti-imperialism as a driver in later Chinese revolutions. Foreign powers readily turned to force to push things along in China whenever dialogue got stuck. Force had …

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S01E27 Taiping Rebellion: Second Opium War-Storming the Dagu Forts 30:50

1+ y ago30:50

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S01E27 Taiping Rebellion: Second Opium War-Storming the Dagu Forts As part of the ongoing series on the Taiping Rebellion, we're taking a look at the storming of the Dagu Forts, which guarded the waterway approaching Beijing. While the civil war between official Qing forces and Taiping rebels was going on, the foreign powers decided to push their o…

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S01E26 Taiping Rebellion: Hong Rengan in Nanjing 34:32

1+ y ago34:32

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S01E26 Taiping Rebellion: Hong Rengan in Nanjing In this episode, we go over Hong Rengan's journey from Hong Kong to Nanjing, what it was like when he got there, and his prospects for changing the Taiping movement. Today's episode substantially based on Autumn in the Heavenly Kingdom: China, the West, and the Epic Story of the Taiping Civil War by …

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S01E25 Taiping Rebellion: Hong Rengan 34:08

1+ y ago34:08

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S01E25 Taiping Rebellion: Hong Rengan Today we're looking at the re-emergence of Hong Rengan, younger cousin of Taiping leader Hong Xiuquan. Hong Rengan was one of the earliest converts, but he was cut off from the main Taiping group early and he had to run away to British Hong Kong to survive the Qing purges of Taiping supporters and sympathizers.…

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S01E24 Foreigners in China: The Customs Department 29:35

1+ y ago29:35

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S01E24 Foreigners in China: The Customs Department Today we're talking about the customs department instituted for China by foreign powers intervening in China. The customs department did much more than collect import-export taxes: foreigners working with the Chinese government sent scientific and sociological studies back to Europe, lighthouses es…

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S01E23 Foreigners in China: Foreign Settlements 34:03

2y ago34:03

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S01E23 Foreigners in China: Foreign Settlements This week we're starting a 2-3 episode series on what foreigners have been building in China since the Opium War blew open the Treaty Ports to foreign use. Because foreign influence will make or break Chinese revolutions, we need to see how foreign powers set themselves up in China. Treaty Port Settle…

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S01E22: Taiping Rebellion-On to Nanjing 44:03

2y ago44:03

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S01E22 The Taiping Rebellion: On to Nanjing In today's episode, we cover a bit over a year of lightning-speed hard campaigning by Taiping forces, taking them from Southwest China so Eastern China. Using the rivers of China, the Taiping covered 500 miles (800 km) from Yongan to Wuchang (today Wuhan), then 600 miles (965 km) down the Yangtze to Nanji…

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S01E21 Taiping Rebellion: The First City 42:29

2y ago42:29

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S01E21 The Taiping Rebellion: They Take their First City In this episode, we talk about the Taiping occupation of the city of Yongan. Taking control of a city gives them the resources and facilities to develop their movement. Hong Xiuquan writes more advanced indoctrination materials, noble titles and hereditary offices are created for Taiping lead…

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S01E20 Taiping Rebellion: Open Conflict Begins 35:05

2y ago35:05

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S01E20 Taiping Rebellion: Open Conflict Begins In this episode, we speed up the story a bit, moving from the end of 1849 to the middle of 1851 and the Taiping capture of their first real city. The Taiping started in a 60 by 80 square mile (100 by 130 km) base area in rugged rural Guangxi, but then they moved out of that area as the Qing began to co…

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S01E19 Taiping Rebellion: At Thistle Mountain 28:46

2y ago28:46

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S01E19 Taiping Rebellion: At Thistle Mountain In this episode, we talk further about the solidification of the Taiping movement's ideology and and increasingly open action against Chinese religion and Qing rule. New books mentioned: China’s War on Smuggling: Law, Economic Life, and the Making of the Modern State, 1842-1965 by Philip Thai Just start…

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S01E18 Taiping Rebellion: Pirates, Bandits, Secret Societies 20:44

2y ago20:44

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S01E18: Taiping Rebellion—Pirates, Bandits, Secret Societies In this episode we fill in a little context for the area in which the movement behind the Taiping Rebellion is coming together. Pirates, bandits, and secret societies are always good fun. If you know anything about the mafia, you can basically copy that over to understand how Chinese band…

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S01E17: Taiping Rebellion-Toward Thistle Mountain 25:41

2y ago25:41

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The Taiping Rebellion: Toward Thistle Mountain In this episode, we follow Hong Xiuquan on his way to Thistle Mountain, the first real base area for the Taiping Rebellion. We start with some big picture things about revolutions. What Makes a Revolution Successful At the beginning, we go over some of the universal aspects in many revolutions, not dep…

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S01E16 Taiping Movement Gets Started 27:31

2y ago27:31

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Taiping Movement Gets Started In this episode, we talk about Hong Xiuquan's first preaching journey and the formalization of the Taiping religious elements. We meet Hong Rengan and Feng Yunshan, two core members of the Taiping movement's inner circle. First Preaching Journey to Guangxi After they started getting some opposition at home, Hong Xiuqua…

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S01E15 Taiping Rebellion: Hong Xiuquan’s First Visions 27:20

2y ago27:20

27:20

The Taiping Rebellion and the First Visions of Hong Xiuquan In this episode, we look at the influences working on Hong Xiuquan, founder of the movement behind the Taiping Rebellion and look at his beginning visions. We look briefly at the Jade Record, a Buddhist/Daoist tact functioning like a Dante's Inferno associating wicked deeds on earth with p…

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S01E14 Taiping Rebellion - Introducing Hong Xiuquan 32:32

2y ago32:32

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The Taiping Rebellion: Introducing Hong Xiuquan In this episode, we introduce the founder of the Taiping Rebellion, Hong Xiuquan. The books we are relying on: God’s Chinese Son by Jonathan D. Spence Autumn in the Heavenly Kingdom by Stephen R. Platt Historical Context of Taiping Rebellion Because the Taiping Rebellion kicks off in the aftermath of …

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S01E13 The Opium War: War Because Drugs 31:12

2y ago31:12

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The Opium War: War Because Drugs This week, we talk about the Opium War and cracking China open for revolution. We won't go into great detail about the war itself, but we'll look at how it made things possible for revolution in China. Our narrative relies for just one more episode on Imperial Twilight by Stephen Platt. Actually Doing the Crackdown …

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S01E12 Lin Zexu Cracks Down 41:42

2y ago41:42

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Lin Zexu Cracks Down on the Opium Trade In today's episode, we look at exactly the inciting incident for the Opium War. The British official on the scene, Charles Elliot, wanted to protect British subjects but also keep good relations between Chinese and British subjects. Chinese officials in Canton wanted to avoid direct conflict, but Beijing want…

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S01E11 Prelude to Opium War 28:39

2y ago28:39

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Prelude to the Opium War In this episode, we directly pick up the main track of this podcast. Here, we're looking at EXACTLY what came before the Opium War. Next episode will be about the precise incident that set the British wheels in motion to send a naval expedition against China. Charles Elliot, the official in charge of British trade at Canton…

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S01E10 Protestant Missionaries 2 of 2 27:17

2y ago27:17

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Protestant Missionaries Going to China 2 of 2 In this episode, we look a bit more at the work that Protestant missionaries are trying to do and why they spend so much time trying to learn the language and culture. We look at how this paved the way for the Taiping Rebellion to emerge. What Missionaries Try to Do Protestant missionary work in China s…

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S01E09 Protestant Missionaries 1 of 2 30:44

2y ago30:44

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Protestant Missionaries Going to China, 1 of 2 In this episode, we look at one of the key parties playing a part in the Taiping Rebellion: foreign Protestant Christian missionaries. Christianity is a universal faith (it means you too!) with a message revolutionary in magnitude. Though it isn't the main player, it's a critical background player. Qui…

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S01E08 Chinese Intellectuals Before the Opium War 29:25

2y ago29:25

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Chinese Scholarly Discussion of Foreign Trade, Before the Opium Wars In this episode, we look at how Chinese scholars examined trade with foreign countries, prior to the First Opium War (1839-1842). Chinese academia was extremely sophisticated, but it was aimed toward passing exams for the traditional Confucian civil service in China. Bao Shichen (…

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S01E07 The Opium Trade 27:02

2y ago27:02

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The Opium Trade In this episode, we look at the opium trade into China. It's drug trade, pure and simple. How one of the first multinational corporations was bound up in it partly led to the First Opium War. This episode draws heavily from Imperial Twilight by Stephen Platt. Origins of East India Company Involvement Occupying India drained EIC fina…

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S01E06 The Macartney Expedition Pt 2 34:05

2y ago34:05

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The Macartney Expedition, Part Two In this episode, we get to see how it actually went, when Macartney's embassy made it to China. Because of a lot of "lost in translation" and incongruent notions about how diplomacy is supposed to go, it went down in flames. What the British Brought The British brought an array of scientific and military technolog…

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S01E05 The Macartney Expedition 19:30

2y ago19:30

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The Macartney Expedition On this episode, we talk about the Macartney Expedition, a diplomatic mission from Britain that reached China in 1793. Last week I appeared on the Man Tools Podcast to talk about living in China and some thoughts about Chinese history. The guys behind the podcast, Eric Madrid and Trevor Lane, were great to talk to. Check th…

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S01E04 Chinese Historical Context 34:39

2y ago34:39

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Chinese Historical Context: So What Changes in All These Revolutions? This episode is a Wikipedia-fueled survey of traditional Chinese structures being changed by the revolutions we're about to cover. Today we cover three main things: Chinese imperial system Confucian examination system Chinese economy Chinese imperial system Qin Shihuang, the "fir…

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S01E03 Foreign Trade and Foreign Settlement 25:14

2y ago25:14

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Foreign Trade at Canton and the Foreign Settlement As we get up to the Taiping Rebellion, we're looking at the Opium Wars as the historical background. In this episode, pay attention to the ordinary Chinese in and around foreign traders. Portuguese Macau In 1554, the Portuguese formally rented Macau from the Ming Dynasty. It was the foreign foothol…

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S0E02 The East India Company 24:48

2y ago24:48

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The East India Company In this episode, we are answering why the British government was in a position to be sending military force to China in 1839. The short answer: the East India Company and trade with the East vital to British national security. Founding of the East India Company and Monopoly Francis Drake and other English adventurers discover…

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S1E01 Before the Opium War: The Beginning of Trouble 23:36

2y ago23:36

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Before the Opium War: The Beginning of Trouble If you’re asking, “Why are things like this?” it’s too late to understand. Let’s do better than that. Starting with some stories of incidents to illustrate what’s in play as the Qing Dynasty loses its “homeostasis.” We’re going to start with looking at the Flint Affair of 1759 and the Macartney Mission…

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S0E05 Books Behind the Podcast 28:11

2y ago28:11

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Books Behind the Podcast I'm going to introduce some of the books that gave me the foundational ideas and impressions for this podcast. Also, in this podcast, the intro and outro music is the anthem "China Heroically Stands in the Universe" because it's the best-sounding of Chinese revolutionary anthems that I could find in the era before the found…

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S0E04 Setting the Stage for Chinese Revolutions 26:18

2y ago26:18

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Setting the Stage for Chinese Revolutions We’re going to set the stage, explore a little of the world that is to change, when the revolutionary fun gets going. Geography of China and Chinese History Chinese geography shaped what connections with the outside world were possible. When the British and other Europeans roll up on the Chinese coast, it's…

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S0E03 Chinese Revolutionary Forerunners 23:07

2y ago23:07

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Chinese Revolutionary Forerunners We’re going to go back into history and look at some of the precursors to revolutions that we’ll be covering in our podcast. It wasn’t like somebody woke up one day and decided to throw a nice revolution and the whole nation came, there are precedents in Chinese history for revolution. About the "Mandate of Heaven"…

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S0E02 Definition of Revolution in this Podcast 24:19

2y ago24:19

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Definition of Revolution We'll Be Using Here, we’re going to discuss the definition of “revolution.” It’s too easy to look at the CPC and think that’s what the revolution produced. No, there were other Chinese revolutions, and before we look at what THOSE were, we’ll look at what revolutions are. Inspiration for this Podcast Before I get away into …

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S0E01 Introduction to Chinese Revolutions Podcast 17:22

2y ago17:22

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Introduction to Chinese Revolutions Podcast Welcome to the Chinese Revolutions podcast by me, Nathan Bennett. We're setting off on a long journey through modern Chinese history, looking at how China came to be the way it is today through the lens of revolutionary movements starting in 1839. I lived in China for 7 years. This podcast is a love lette…

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5+ y ago6:58

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