S0E05 Books Behind the Podcast

Chinese Revolutions: A History Podcast

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 founding of the PRC.

Books on American Connections to China Stilwell and the American Experience in China, 1911-1945 by Barbara Tuchman

This biography of General Joseph Stilwell and the account of his time in China provides critical insight into the Chinese perspective of World War Two and gives extensive detail on a pivotal time of change in Chinese history.

The Coldest Winter by David Halberstam

Chinese intervention into the Korean War showed China a major power once again. Not any more a battlefield for competition between imperialist powers, China was again projecting power.

The China Mission: George Marshall’s Unfinished War, 1945-1947 by Daniel Kurtz-Phelan

A look into the Chinese political situation as America and other powers were withdrawing from China at the end of World War Two. The Communists had a coherent vision for what they wanted for the future. The Nationalists had a vision but couldn't coalesce around a constructive and unifying alternative to the Communist vision.

Book on Evolution of Chinese Culture and Ethnic Self-Understanding The Invention of China by Bill Hayton

Dynamic nations are continually articulating and re-articulating their self-understanding. At first I scoffed at this book. Then I actually read it and it became foundational to this podcast.

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