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China Stories summer special: The best of This Week in China’s History

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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)
      • All these tracks and more are available on Spotify here or on YouTube here.
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