Chinese Characters

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Series of essays exploring Chinese history through the life stories of key personalities.

Recent Episodes
  • Deng Xiaoping: Black Cat, Yellow Cat
    May 4, 2018 – 13:47
  • Bruce Lee: Screen Warrior
    May 3, 2018 – 13:58
  • Mao Zedong: The Man Who Made Modern China
    May 2, 2018 – 13:18
  • Factory Girls: Modern Girls, Modern Dreams
    May 1, 2018 – 13:42
  • Cixi: Ambivalent Empress
    Apr 30, 2018 – 13:53
  • Hong Xiuquan v Zeng Guofan: The Duellists
    Apr 27, 2018 – 13:56
  • Wang Jingwei: Revolutionary Renegade
    Apr 26, 2018 – 13:46
  • Lu Xun: Compassionate Cynic
    Apr 25, 2018 – 13:47
  • Robert Hart: Chinese Customs
    Apr 24, 2018 – 12:56
  • Zheng He: The Admiral Goes to Africa
    Apr 23, 2018 – 13:34
  • River Elegy: River and Ocean
    Apr 20, 2018 – 13:55
  • Li Qingzhao: Patriotic Poet
    Apr 19, 2018 – 13:53
  • Confucius: Becoming the Sage
    Apr 18, 2018 – 13:46
  • Kublai Khan: Cosmopolitan Conqueror
    Apr 17, 2018 – 13:47
  • Sima Qian: Grand Historian
    Apr 16, 2018 – 13:27
  • Ding Ling: Sophie, Sensation and Sex
    Apr 13, 2018 – 13:50
  • Matteo Ricci: Jesuit and Geometrist
    Apr 12, 2018 – 13:33
  • Kumarajiva: Translator Monk
    Apr 11, 2018 – 13:42
  • Chiang Kai-Shek and Soong Meiling: Asian Power Couple
    Apr 10, 2018 – 13:47
  • Wu Zetian: The Female Emperor
    Apr 9, 2018 – 13:52
Recent Reviews
  • Bilas Peles
    Why so few?
    Clever title and equally brilliant content. We in the West need to know much more about important figures in Chinese history. Why did this series end so soon?
  • IT1020
    Wonderful, looking forward to series 2, 3, 4, 5,....
    I am totally hooked, cannot get enough of it. Prof. Rana Mitter is a wonderful story teller. It's fascinnating to also hear the lives of some foreigners who played important roles in Chinese history, such as Matteo Ricci, Robert Hart, etc. Looking forward to more series.
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