152 Like a River Flowing On

The History of the Twentieth Century

Mark Painter

History

4.8 • 719 Ratings

🗓️ 28 April 2019

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Summary

The Chinese government (despite its many internal problems) was willing to enter the Great War in order to reclaim concessions lost to Germany and Austria. The Allies were initially hesitant, but as the casualties mounted and the shortage of manpower became acute, Chinese civilian laborers began working behind the front lines. Later, after a U-boat attack killed hundreds of Chinese, China formally entered the war.

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0:00.0	The epoch in which you are living.
0:20.5	Which epoch is this? It is the beginning of the 16th year of the 20th century.
0:27.1	The changes of the world are evolutionary, different from month to month, year to year. The shining history is unfolding faster and faster.
0:37.6	To live in the present world, you must raise your head and proudly call yourself a person of the 20th century.
0:44.8	You must create a new civilization of the 20th century and not confine yourself to following that of the 19th.
0:52.2	For the evolution of human civilization is replacing the old with the new,
0:57.1	like a river flowing on, an arrow flying away,
1:01.6	constantly continuing and constantly changing.
1:06.7	Chandu Xu, the year 1916.
1:11.8	Welcome to the history of the 20th century.
1:15.7	The 20th century. The
1:30.3	The Episode 152, like a river flowing on.
1:58.2	It's been a long time since we talked about China on this podcast, not since episode 93, in fact.
2:05.6	And just to refresh your memory, when we last looked at China, the Japanese, with British support,
2:11.6	had captured the German concession on the Shandong Peninsula and had forced the 21 demands on China.
2:18.7	Pressure from Britain, France, and Russia, Japan's wartime allies,
2:23.1	had compelled the Japanese to back down from the most extreme of the 21 demands,
2:27.6	but China was still forced to agree to humiliating terms,
2:32.0	including that the former German concession on the Shandong Peninsula
2:35.6	would become a Japanese concession, expanding Japanese control over northeastern China.
2:44.1	Domestically, a revolution in 1911 overthrew the Qing dynasty and led to the creation of a
2:50.0	republic of China.
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