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Revolutionary Left Radio

[BEST OF] The History of Modern China

Revolutionary Left Radio

Breht O'Shea

Communism, Politics, Liberalism, Society & Culture, Philosophy, News, History, Leftwing, Socialism, Marxism

4.83.4K Ratings

🗓️ 9 June 2025

⏱️ 421 minutes

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Summary

From the Taiping and Boxer Rebellions, to the Chinese Revolution and Civil War, through the Long March and the rise of Mao Zedong, to the Great Leap Forward and Cultural Revolution, all the way to Deng's Reform and China today, Professor of East Asian and Global History Dr. Ken Hammond walk us through 200 years of Chinese history to highlight in detail how modern China was forged through centuries of class struggle, resistance, rebellion, and revolution. 

After listening to this mega-episode you will have a profound, and deeply inspired, understanding of the rich modern history of China, and be much better able to understand its present and future.  

This series originally aired on Guerrilla History in the Spring of 2024

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0:00.0

You remember Den Van Boo?

0:09.0

No!

0:10.0

The same thing happened in Algeria, in Africa.

0:15.0

They didn't have anything but a rank.

0:17.0

The French had all these highly mechanized instruments of warfare, but they put some guerrilla action on.

0:28.7

Hello and welcome to guerrilla history, the podcast that acts as a reconnaissance report of global proletarian history and aims to use the lessons of history to analyze the present.

0:39.2

I'm one of your co-host, Sanry Hakimaki, unfortunately not joined by my usual co-host,

0:44.4

Adnan Hussein. We are, however, joined by a special guest host who will be familiar to many of you,

0:49.9

listeners. I'm pretty sure that we can say that at this point. Our guest host is Brett O'Shea,

0:56.5

who, unless you missed that last episode that we put out, Brett has at this point officially

1:02.7

left the show, but to demonstrate that it was on amicable terms, Brett is coming back to co-host

1:08.4

this series on a guest hosting basis. So, Brett, it's nice to see you again, although there hasn't really been any gap since the last time I saw you.

1:16.3

Absolutely.

1:16.8

It is a little weird to hear that, you know, the guest co-hosting, but I'm just happy to continue doing whatever work we can together.

1:23.1

Loved our three and a half years together and just really want to drive home the point that it's it's certainly not the end. It's just a change. So happy to be here. Yeah, absolutely. And of course,

1:33.3

knowing that Adnan is not able to make it today, I couldn't ask for a better guest host than

1:37.8

somebody who I've been hosting the show with for the last three and a half years anyway.

1:42.3

Now, we do have a returning guest and this is the start of an excellent mini-series that we have

1:49.3

planned, which we've actually been planning for the last almost half a year.

1:53.5

But before I introduce the miniseries and the guest, I would like to remind listeners that

1:57.9

you can help support the show by joining us on patreon.com

2:01.8

forward slash guerrilla history. That's G-U-E-R-R-I-L-A history. Any contributions there are what

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