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    Chinese Characters

    Chinese Characters

    Chinese Characters

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    Length:
    20 episodes
    Language:
    English
    Format:
    Podcast

    Description

    Series of essays exploring Chinese history through the life stories of key personalities.
    Language:
    English
    Format:
    Podcast

    Episodes1 - 10 of 20 episodes

    Title

    Deng Xiaoping: Black Cat, Yellow Cat

    He was nicknamed "the steel mill" for his capacity to just keep going on and on. He was...

    13 minutes
    		May 04, 2018

    Bruce Lee: Screen Warrior

    He may still be the most famous non-western film star in the world. Yet he made only a ...

    13 minutes
    		May 03, 2018

    Mao Zedong: The Man Who Made Modern China

    In the early 1920s, he was just a library assistant at Peking University. Yet by the en...

    13 minutes
    		May 02, 2018

    Factory Girls: Modern Girls, Modern Dreams

    They came out of the countryside and helped to build China's industrial revolution. In ...

    13 minutes
    		May 01, 2018

    Cixi: Ambivalent Empress

    She rose to power behind the scenes in China's late 19th century imperial court, and be...

    13 minutes
    		Apr 30, 2018

    Hong Xiuquan v Zeng Guofan: The Duellists

    This was the duel that shaped China. Hong Xiuquan was a poor boy who went into a trance...

    13 minutes
    		Apr 27, 2018

    Wang Jingwei: Revolutionary Renegade

    He is condemned as China's worst traitor. What made him do it? In 1938, as China was pl...

    13 minutes
    		Apr 26, 2018

    Lu Xun: Compassionate Cynic

    To create one character who says something profound about the society you live in might...

    13 minutes
    		Apr 25, 2018

    Robert Hart: Chinese Customs

    He was a servant of the Chinese empire, respected in Beijing and London alike. Yet he w...

    12 minutes
    		Apr 24, 2018

    Zheng He: The Admiral Goes to Africa

    China rarely had an image as a great maritime power. But for a brief time in the mid-15...

    13 minutes
    		Apr 23, 2018