Audio: This Week in China's History: The Qing Abdication

This Week in China's History

Audio: This Week in China's History: The Qing Abdication — February 12, 1912

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Audio: This Week in China's History: The Qing Abdication — February 12, 1912

A column by James Carter, Professor of History and Interim Provost of St. Joseph's University

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James Carter

Feb 23, 2024

Transcript

Sinica is proud to present historian James Carter's column "This Week in China's History," one of the most popular offerings from the late great China Project. I'm delighted to be able to bring this back and to narrate it. You can expect a new column every other week, and we'll be publishing on Fridays.

This week, Jay looks at the last Qing emperor, Puyi's, abdication in February 1912, marking the end not only of the Qing Empire but of imperial Chinese history. Please enjoy!

The music on this episode is from the song "Between the Mountains and the Sea" (山海间) by my old band, Chunqiu. This song was written and performed by Yang Meng.

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This Week in China's History

For over three years, the historian James ("Jay") Carter wrote the much-beloved column "This Week in China's History" for The China Project. We're bringing that back, with new bi-weekly columns and — as soon as I can get to them — all the old columns to boot! We'll have audio on all the new columns, as well as any I previously recorded for China Stories.

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