Sveriges mest populära poddar
People's History of Ideas Podcast
Samhälle och kulturHistoria

The Taiping Revolution

28 min•15 juni 2019

The strange story of Christian peasant revolutionaries in 19th century China. This episode is about the origins and early years of the Taiping Revolution (1850-1864). Both the early Nationalist revolutionaries, like Sun Yat-sen, and later Communists, like Mao Zedong, were inspired by the peasant war led by Hong Xiuquan. But the Taipings were more than just a very large peasant rebellion, as their leader, Hong, thought he was the younger brother of Jesus Christ.

Good resources for more information:
Jonathan Spence, God's Chinese Son: The Taiping Heavenly Kingdom of Hong Xiuquan (https://wwnorton.com/books/Gods-Chinese-Son/)
Stephen Platt, Autumn in the Heavenly Kingdom: China, the West, and the Epic Story of the Taiping Civil War (https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/131825/autumn-in-the-heavenly-kingdom-by-stephen-r-platt/9780307472212/)

Support the show

Fler avsnitt av People's History of Ideas Podcast

Visa alla avsnitt av People's History of Ideas Podcast
Winning Over Enemy Troops: Mao’s Leninist Approach to Fomenting Mutiny in the Guomindang (January 1930)
•30 min
A Single Spark Can Start a Prairie Fire (January 1930) (Part Two)
•31 min
A Single Spark Can Start a Prairie Fire (January 1930) (Part One)
•23 min
How Brainwashing was Good and Maoist Propaganda was True: An Interview with leading China scholar Aminda Smith
•58 min
Chen Duxiu Update (or, the Devil Makes Work for Idle Hands) (1929)
•31 min
Did the German Communists Really Say “After Hitler, Our Turn?” Exploring the Historical Evidence
•19 min
Revolution in the ‘20s, Go For It: The ‘Third Period’ Comes to China
•27 min
The Chinese Communist Party Interventions in the 1929 Sino-Soviet War
•23 min
The 1929 Sino-Soviet War Concludes
•22 min
The 1929 Sino-Soviet War Begins
•22 min

People's History of Ideas Podcast med Matthew Rothwell finns tillgänglig på flera plattformar. Informationen på denna sida kommer från offentliga podd-flöden.