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Dan Wang, "Breakneck: China’s Quest to Engineer the Future" (Norton, 2025)

Dan Wang is a research fellow at Stanford University’s Hoover History Lab, and previously a fellow at Yale Law School’s Paul Tsai China Center. Before that, he was an analyst focused on China’s technology capabilities at Gavekal Dragonomics, based across Hong Kong, Beijing, and S ... Show More

1h 2m

Aug 22

Robert Cribb et al., "Detention Camps in Asia: The Conditions of Confinement in Modern Asian History" (Brill, 2022)

Why have Asian states - colonial and independent - imprisoned people on a massive scale in detention camps? How have detainees experienced the long months and years of captivity? And what does the creation of camps and the segregation of people in them mean for society as a whole ... Show More

1h 8m

Aug 21

Nan Z. Da, The Chinese Tragedy of King Lear (Princeton UP, 2025)

I’m Nicholas Gordon, host of the Asian Review of Books podcast, done in partnership with the New Books Network. On this show, we interview authors writing in, around, and about the Asia-Pacific region.King Lear, one of Shakespeare’s most famous tragedies, starts with Lear divid ... Show More

29m 38s

Apr 2022

[BEST OF] Mao Zedong and the Chinese Revolution

[Originally released Jun 2018] Yueran Zhang is a PhD candidate in Sociology at Harvard University. Yueran joins Brett to discuss Mao and the Chinese Revolution. Yueran's academic profile is here: https://sociology.fas.harvard.edu/people/yueran-zhang Here are the recommendations ... Show More

1h 3m

Jun 2018

Mao Zedong and the Chinese Revolution

Yueran Zhang is a PhD candidate in Sociology at Harvard University. Yueran joins Brett to discuss Mao and the Chinese Revolution. Yueran's academic profile is here: https://sociology.fas.harvard.edu/people/yueran-zhang Here are the recommendations Yueran gave at the end of the e ... Show More

1h 3m

Mar 2023

The Chinese Cultural Revolution

By the early 1960s, Chairman Mao Zedong's campaign to modernise Communist China had ended in disaster. Known as the Great Leap Forward, it resulted in turmoil on such a scale that many had begun to question Mao's authority. In response, he set out to claim absolute political supr ... Show More

32m 54s

May 2024

Modern China Pt. 3: The Great Leap Forward & Cultural Revolution w/ Ken Hammond

In this episode of Guerrilla History, we get into part 3 of our 4 part miniseries on modern Chinese history featuring Ken Hammond (and guest host Breht O'Shea of Revolutionary Left Radio) with an amazing discussion of The Great Leap Forward and The Cultural Revolution! If you ha ... Show More

2h 4m

Apr 2024

Modern China Pt. 2: The Chinese Revolution & Civil War w/ Ken Hammond

In this episode of Guerrilla History, we get into part 2 of our 4 part miniseries on modern Chinese history featuring Ken Hammond (and guest host Breht O'Shea of Revolutionary Left Radio) with this absolutely terrific discussion on the Chinese Revolution & Civil War! If you have ... Show More

1h 38m

Dec 2020

The Cultural Revolution

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Chairman Mao and the revolt he led within his own party from 1966, setting communists against each other, to renew the revolution that he feared had become too bourgeois and to remove his enemies and rivals. Universities closed and the students for ... Show More

48m 9s

Dec 2020

The Cultural Revolution

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Chairman Mao and the revolt he led within his own party from 1966, setting communists against each other, to renew the revolution that he feared had become too bourgeois and to remove his enemies and rivals. Universities closed and the students for ... Show More

48m 9s

Aug 2020

Mao Zedong Part 2: The ‘Great Leap Forward’

Mao Zedong's Communists come down from the mountains to do battle with the Nationalists. After clinching victory, Mao is greeted by many as a hero. But life under the new Chairman is about to get a whole lot worse. Installed as Supreme Leader, Mao sets about revolutionising the w ... Show More

52m 17s

Jul 2019

Little Red Book, Big Red Ideas: Part 2 of A Global History of Maoism

This week, in part 2 of a special two-part edition of ChinaEconTalk, Jordan interviews Professor Julia Lovell, author of the recently published book on Mao’s international legacy entitled Maoism: A Global History. In this episode, Lovell recounts the ways in which Maoism truly st ... Show More

1h 4m

Jan 2023

There’s Been a Revolution in How China Is Governed

There are few stories that are more crucial to the world’s future than what’s happening in China. Take any of the most important issues of our time — climate change, geopolitics, the global economy, advanced technologies — and China is at the center of them. American politics its ... Show More

1h 19m

Brian James DeMare, “Mao’s Cultural Army...