Ep. 99 | Sidney Rittenberg

The China History Podcast

Laszlo Montgomery

Places & Travel, Society & Culture, History

4.8 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 26 September 2012

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Summary

In this episode, we introduce American Sidney Rittenberg, 李敦白，known by the title of his 1993 book as “The Man Who Stayed Behind.” He arrived in China in his 20’s at the end of WWII and witnessed the Chinese Revolution from a front-row seat. When the US pulled out of China after the war, Sidney Rittenberg stayed behind with his dreams of contributing to the building of a new China. He remained in his adoptive country for 35 years. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:54.0	Hi everyone, Las La Montgomery again.
0:59.0	Another China History Podcast, our 99th.
1:02.0	We're into triple digits starting with the next one.
1:04.5	We, we, we, we, the Royal China History Podcast. I read a piece last month in Jeremy Goldcorn's
1:11.6	world-renowned Dunway.com site about Sydney Rittenberg.
1:16.0	The piece was written by Allison Carol Goldman. It's dated August 3rd if you want to check that out
1:20.7	on Donway.com. Now, Sydney Rittenberg was a topic on my list, I think,
1:26.0	from the earliest days of the China History Podcast. The man who stayed behind, if you're hearing this name for the first time in your life, other
1:35.9	than the surname which sort of gives away his Jewish ancestry, you're probably wondering,
1:41.1	who's he? What did he do to merit inclusion into the China History
1:45.2	Podcast? And many of you are also wondering, hey, you did three European Jesuits last time,
1:51.0	and now another Western guy? What's with the foreigners?
1:54.5	This phenomenon dawned on me sometime beyond the point of no return when I was almost done
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