The Chinese History Podcast

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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.

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Cultural Production during the Ming-Qing Transition: A Conversation with Professor Lynn Struve

Mar 01 2024 56 mins

Emeritus professor Lynn Struve talks about cultural and intellectual production during the Ming-Qing transition.

Professor Pamela Crossley on History and Identity in Qing Imperial Ideology

Mar 03 2023 48 mins

Professor Pamela Crossley of Dartmouth University talks about the relationship between history and identity and Qing imperial ideology.

The Maritime Kingdom of the Zheng Family: An Interview with Professor Xing Hang

Nov 28 2022 54 mins

Professor Xing Hang of Brandeis University talks about the Zheng family regime on Taiwan.

Professor Maura Dykstra on Her New Book ”Uncertainty in the Empire of Routine: The Administrative Revolution of the Eighteenth-Century Qing State” (Governing China, Part 2)

Sep 20 2022 37 mins

Professor Maura Dykstra of Caltech joins us to talk about her new book about an administrative revolution that took place in the Qing Empire.

The Ming Bureaucracy and its Practices: A Conversation with Professor Chelsea Wang (Governing China, Part 1)

Aug 21 2022 48 mins

Professor Chelsea Wang of Claremont McKenna College joins us today to talk about some of the bureaucratic practices of the Ming dynasty which might seem strange and counterintuitive to modern observers but actually have their own logic in the Ming.

The Ming in the Southwest: Conquest, Rule, and Legacy

Jul 31 2022 39 mins

UC Berkely PhD student Sean Cronan discusses the Ming’s conquest and rule of Southwest China and their legacy in the region.

Professor Joanna Waley-Cohen on New Qing History

Jun 25 2022 38 mins

Professor Joanna Waley-Cohen of NYU joins us to talk about a very influential school in the study of Qing history - the New Qing History school.

Wang Yangming and the School of Mind: An Interview with Professor George L. Israel

May 01 2022 55 mins

Professor George L. Israel talks about the life, reception, and impact of the great Ming dynasty Neo-Confucian scholar Wang Yangming.

Diplomacy, War, and Interstate Order in the Late 13th century East Asia: A Reconsideration of the Mongol Invasions of Japan

Apr 03 2022 34 mins

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.

Rediscovering and Reconnecting: The Intellectual Exchange of Hui Muslims in the 19th and 20th Centuries

Mar 13 2022 56 mins

Professor Nile Green of UCLA talks about the exchange between Chinese Muslim scholars and Arab and Indian Muslim scholars in the 19th and 20th centuries and the implications this had for the development of Islam in China and for the foreign understanding of Islam in China.