#108 - Peter Frankopan - The New Silk Roads

Modern Wisdom

Chris Williamson

Society & Culture, Health & Fitness

4.7 • 4.6K Ratings

🗓️ 3 October 2019

⏱️ 63 minutes

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Summary

Peter Frankopan is a Professor of Global History at Oxford University, Director at the Oxford Centre for Byzantine Research and an author.

In the west we tend to have a view that our own political, economical and cultural situations are the most important on the planet. We tend to believe that we are principally shaping the direction the world heads in.

Today Peter offers an alternative view which identifies the rapid rate of change seen in Asia over the last few years which could change not only the financial and commercial but the cultural focus of the globe.

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0:00.0	Oh, hello beautiful people of podcastland. Welcome back to Modern Wisdom. I have some good news.
0:06.2	We are rapidly closing in on one million total downloads. That will be pretty soon, I think.
0:14.4	So we will be doing a couple of special edition videos and potentially some episodes around that as well.
0:22.1	I think video guide Dean is planning on putting a bloopers reel out of all the times that we've messed up.
0:27.8	Thanks for that Dean. But on to today's episode, I'm joined by Peter Franko Pan, who is the best selling author of the Silk Road.
0:37.2	And his new book, The New Silk Road is the topic of today's discussion, talking about all things Asia.
0:44.6	I have been delving in a lot of politics and history and stuff recently, but it's really...
0:51.4	It's opening my eyes to how narrow and insulated my world view is and that of a lot of people who are in the West.
1:00.6	We just believe that what's going on with us is most important and everybody else is equally bothered by it.
1:07.6	But as Peter explains today, the fact that Brexit is a little bit of a mess and our parliament's not really too sure about what's going on.
1:15.2	Probably doesn't matter that much if you live in Shanghai or Cape Town.
1:20.9	So yeah, hopefully these podcasts will give you a little bit more perspective and maybe allow you to feel less embroiled and less concerned about exactly what's going on.
1:34.6	You have a little bit more of a global view of things you realise that we're all heading in the right direction.
1:40.0	For now, please welcome Peter Franko Pan.
1:45.1	I am joined by Professor of Global History at Oxford and Director at the Oxford Centre for Bison Time Research.
2:07.4	Peter Franko Pan. Peter, welcome to the show.
2:11.1	Hi there.
2:12.3	Very good to have you here. I am holding a copy of the New Silk Roads.
2:16.3	Many of the listeners will be familiar with your first books, Under Time's Best Seller.
2:21.1	And we've got a new one now, talking to all things China and Asia and stuff in an area of the world that we never really know much about.
2:28.7	Well, I write a first book about... I'm interested in all parts of history.
2:34.5	I'm interested in looking as far and wide as possible.
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