Do Your Own Research: 150 Years of Constant Revolution w/ Rebecca Karl

Podcast: Novara Media · Novara Media

Opublikowano: 2026-10-17

For a century, China underwent a series of invasions, revolutions and counter-revolutions. In China, it’s known as the Century of Humiliation. It was a time of immense upheavals: from the Opium Wars of 1839, through the Taiping Rebellion, the Xinhai Republican Revolution, a Civil War, an invasion by the Japanese which merged into the Second World War; the resumption of the Civil War and, eventually coming to an end with the Communist Revolution of 1949. Each one transformed the country more comprehensively than seemed possible beforehand. Rebecca Karl is the author of China's Revolutions in the Modern World, which tells us no...