Historian James Carter on the final days of Old Shanghai
Sinica Podcast
Kaiser Kuo
4.8 • 676 Ratings
🗓️ 25 December 2020
⏱️ 52 minutes
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Summary
This week on Sinica, Kaiser and Jeremy chat with James “Jay” Carter, a professor of history at St. Joseph’s University in Philadelphia, about his terrific new book, Champions Day: The End of Old Shanghai, which focuses on horse racing as an unlikely but effective way to tell the story of Shanghai during the Nanjing decade (1928–1938) and World War II. We also talk about the challenges of presenting Chinese history to non-specialists, and about Jay’s weekly column in SupChina, “This Week in China’s History.”
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Cynical podcast, a weekly discussion of current affairs in China, |
| 0:12.7 | produced in partnership with SubChina. SubChina is simply the best way there is to keep on top of all the |
| 0:16.9 | important news coming out of China, especially if you subscribe to our daily email newsletter, SUPChina Access. And visit SUPChina.com to check out our wide range of report pieces, |
| 0:27.1 | our op-eds, videos, and, of course, podcasts. It's a feast of business, political, and cultural |
| 0:32.6 | news about a nation that is reshaping the world. I'm Kaiser Guoual, coming to you today from my home in Chapel Hill, North Carolina. |
| 0:39.6 | Joining me from Nashville, Tennessee, is a man who clings to his vintage pleather clutch purse |
| 0:43.6 | and playboy brand belt buckle, like his Trump-loving neighbors cling to their God and their guns. |
| 0:48.8 | Mr. Jeremy Goldcorn. |
| 0:49.9 | Jeremy, I should add, is now shorn of that fulsome thicket that once sprouted obscenely from |
| 0:55.2 | his face and neck. |
| 0:55.9 | It is quite dapper-looking. |
| 0:57.5 | I have to say, Jeremy, a new Jeremy, greet the people. |
| 1:00.9 | Hello, people. |
| 1:03.0 | Yep. |
| 1:04.1 | You know, no chance of getting a covered free barber in this part of the country at the moment, |
| 1:09.9 | so I had to just do a hack job. |
| 1:12.4 | Go all the way down. Yep. Yeah. Anyway, let's jump in. What do you do when the world, you know, |
| 1:18.2 | is coming to an end after this awful year, thankfully, now almost over? I can't say it's a question |
| 1:24.3 | I haven't been asking myself. And if you were a resident of the old international settlement in Shanghai 80 years ago, |
| 1:31.1 | facing the reality of Japanese occupation and a tenuous existence on the Goudao, |
| 1:37.9 | the lonely island of the international settlement, |
| 1:40.5 | the answer might very well have been, |
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