Episode 96 - The Dragon and the Rising Sun, Part 6

History of Japan

Isaac Meyer

Japan, History, Japanese

4.8 • 744 Ratings

🗓️ 11 April 2015

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Summary

This week, we're turn to the modern Sino-Japanese relationship. After 1978, the communist party assumed a different form under the leadership of Deng Xiaoping. How did those changes affect diplomacy between China and Japan? And what on earth happened to lead to the modern fraught relationship between East Asia's two most powerful states?

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1:24.9	Episode 97, The Dragon and the Rising Sun, Part 6.
1:30.2	The death of Mao Zedong in September 1976 marked a turning point in Chinese history.
1:37.9	Not that you would know it immediately, before his death, Mao named a successor, a middling
1:43.5	official named Huagwo Feng.
1:46.4	Hua was a committed Maoist, that's why he was picked.
1:49.7	He was more moderate than Mao, though, and in particular he's the one who gets a lot of credit
1:54.2	for finally sticking a cork in the Cultural Revolution.
1:58.6	We didn't talk much about this last time because there's so much to cover in the life of
2:03.0	Chairman Mao, but the cultural revolution was started in 1966 by Mao himself.
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