Historian Rana Mitter on ideology in China's "New Era" — live from Salzburg, Austria
Sinica Podcast
Kaiser Kuo
4.8 • 676 Ratings
🗓️ 14 March 2024
⏱️ 68 minutes
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Summary
Historian Rana Mitter joins Sinica this week in a show taped live in Salzburg, Austria at the Salzburg Global Seminar, in which he discusses efforts by Party ideologists to create a Confucian-Marxist synthesis that can serve as an enduring foundation for a modern Chinese worldview in the self-proclaimed “new era.”
01:28 – Is China a revisionist power?
02:16 – Right-sizing China's global ambitions
09:27 — How China utilizes historical narratives to support political ends
10:43 – Marxism and China's Historical Understanding
17:07 – China's "New Era" and Party history
28:38 – The Confucian-Marxist Synthesis
56:58 – China's ability to reinvent itself
1:02:15 – What’s the next big question?
A complete transcript is available at the Sinica Substack.
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| 0:45.7 | That's audible.com slash Wondery UK. Welcome to this special live recording of the Cynica podcast here at the Saltsburg Global Seminar. |
| 1:04.4 | Hello, Salzburg. |
| 1:07.9 | Woo! |
| 1:17.8 | Oh, hell yeah. I am K Goy and I am delighted to be joined here by Rana Mittur. |
| 1:24.2 | You know, the truth of it is, though, any one of you here in the audience could easily have been plucked up here to, you know, |
| 1:27.8 | so I could subject you to my ruthless line of questioning, and he would have acquitted yourself statelessly really, really well. But the unfortunate victim is Ron Amitter, |
| 1:32.1 | who you all know as S.T. Lee Chair in U.S. Asia Relations at the Harvard Kennedy School. Formerly, |
| 1:37.8 | of course, professor of history at Oxford University and author of, among other works, |
| 1:41.9 | Forgotten Ally, that's the American name, the British name is the |
| 1:45.2 | really utterly bland China's War with Japan. We Americans have a way of hyping everything up to make |
| 1:52.0 | it more exciting. And China's Good War, the American title is China's Awesome War. Both books |
| 2:00.2 | I've spoken about with him before on Cynica. |
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