A weekly discussion of current affairs in China with journalists, writers, academics, policymakers, business people and anyone with something compelling to say about the country that's reshaping the world. Hosted by Kaiser Kuo.
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China Stories summer special: The best of This Week in China's HIstory
Something different this week on Sinica: A selection of "This Week in China's History" columns by James Carter, all narrated by Kaiser with a little interstitial music by Chunqiu (Spring & Autumn).
The columns:
- Not just a metaphor: Dragons of imperial China show us how people lived (1517)
- The ‘Empress of China’ and the beginning of U.S.-China trade (1784)
- The rise of Empress Dowager Cixi (1861)
- In the 7th century, a Chinese coup of Shakespearean proportions (626)
- Titanic’s six Chinese survivors tell a story that goes far beyond a shipwreck (1912)
- The problem with Mao’s ‘continuous’ revolution (1967)
- The Battle of Red Cliffs and the blurring of fact and fiction (208-209)
The music: snippets from
- The Huntsman
- The Last Page (intro)
- The Subcelestial
- A Call from Afar
- Between the Mountains and the Sea
- Born of the Storm
- Born of the Storm (again)
- A New Day
- The Last Page (outro)
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