We are a group of Chinese history PhD students looking to make Chinese history more accessible to the general public. Our podcast will cover a broad range of topics in Chinese history or topics related to Chinese history in both the premodern and the modern periods. Our content will be composed of both interviews with scholars and individually narrated episodes on selected topics.
https://thechinesehistorypodcast.podbean.com
Gesamtlänge aller Episoden: 13 hours 11 minutes
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episode 1: The Rise of Merchants: Maritime Sea Trade in East Asia in the 10th to 12th centuries
In our very first episode, Greg talks about some aspects of his research on the growing role of Chinese merchants in the East Asian sea trade between the 10th to 12th centuries. Diplomacy from the 7th to 9th centuries was dominated by official embass...
episode 2: New Perspectives on the Zheng He Voyages: A Conversation with Sean Cronan
Sean Cronan, a PhD student at UC Berkeley, talks about some new scholarships and perspectives on the Zheng He voyages and how these voyages help us to understand early Ming diplomacy and connections with the broader maritime world.
episode 3: King Kwong Wong on Koryŏ Korea Under Mongol-Yuan Domination
King Kwong Wong, an independent scholar specializing in Koryŏ-Mongol relations, gives us an introduction to the history of Koryŏ under it was under Mongol-Yuan domination,
episode 4: The Tributary System and Chosŏn-Ming Relations: A Conversation with Professor Sixiang Wang
In this episode, Professor Sixiang Wang of UCLA talks explains the tributary system as a historiographical in the study of Chinese diplomacy in the Early Modern Periodand gives us an introduction to the relationship between Chosŏn Korea and Ming China
episode 5: The Mongol-Yuan Conquest of the Southern Song
In this episode, UCLA PhD Candidate Yiming Ha will talk about the forty-four year Mongol-Song war, including the general course of the war, some of the major battles, the weapons, and broader implications.
episode 6: Feeding and Supplying the World’s Largest City: The Environmental Impact of Northern Song Kaifeng
Dr. Yuan Chen, an environmental historian of premodern China, talks to us about how the Song dynasty capital of Kaifeng impacted the environment of China and changed ecological features.
episode 7: New Narratives on the Late Ming Military: An Interview with Professor Kenneth Swope
Professor Kenneth Swope joins us to talk about military developments in the Late Ming, particularly its military successes, which up until now has usually been ignored.
episode 8: Sino-Japanese Diplomatic Encounters from the 1st to the 9th Century
In this episode, UCLD Ph.D. student Greg Sattler talks about Sino-Japanese diplomatic exchange from the 1st to the 9th centuries.
episode 9: Rediscovering and Reconnecting: The Intellectual Exchange of Hui Muslims in the 19th and 20th Centuries
In the study of 19th and 20th century Chinese history, there is often focus on the intense Christian missionary activities happening in China. Yet at the same time, members of China's Hui (or Sino-Muslim) community were also beginning to reconnect wi...
episode 10: Diplomacy, War, and Interstate Order in the Late 13th century East Asia: A Reconsideration of the Mongol Invasions of Japan
USC PhD candidate Lina Nie shares some new perspectives on the Mongol invasions of Japan, with a focus on the diplomacy that went on before and after the invasions and what that diplomacy can tell us about the interstate order in East Asia during that time.
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