China Stories summer special: The best of This Week in China's HIstory

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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