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Ep. 6 | The Opium War
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37 minutes
Released:
Jul 14, 2010
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Podcast episode
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In this week’s episode we give an overview of the First Opium War, one of the most humiliating events in Modern Chinese history. From this event that culminated in the first of many unequal treaties in 1842, China began a steady downhill slide and suffered a multitude of setbacks and insults from foreign powers eager continue reading >>
Released:
Jul 14, 2010
Format:
Podcast episode
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CHP-003 The Four Great Inventions: Today we look at the Four Great Inventions, the 四大发明, that Lord Francis Bacon hailed as having done more than anything else to transform completely the modern world and mark it off from antiquity and the Middle Ages. Today we examine the four gre by The China History Podcast