History of China with Michael Wood

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🗓️ 30 September 2020

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Michael Wood joined me on the podcast to talk about his new history of China. He takes a fresh look at Chinese history in the light of the current massive changes inside the country, and how its people and leaders see their place in the world, and its place on the world stage.

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0:00.0	Hi everyone, welcome to Dance Know's History. We've got history royalty on the podcast today.
0:04.2	For the first time, I'm very pleased to say we have Michael Wood. Now here in the UK, he is just OG
0:10.6	History Broadcaster. He made it popular and cool for historians to walk around fields,
0:16.7	wearing flares and cool shirts back in the 70s in the search of awesome historical topics and
0:24.9	subjects. I watched him growing up, everyone watched him growing up, and the thing about Michael
0:29.2	Wood. He's not just a very very gifted broadcast, he's a brilliant writer and he's just written a
0:32.5	new history of China, a single volume history of China. It's another just glittering milestone in
0:37.4	one of the most exciting public history careers on earth. It was huge when I talked to Michael on
0:42.2	this podcast about history. This was a live episode once a week. We let history hit subscribers,
0:47.7	join us for a live record of the podcast. I still all their best questions. They write them up in
0:52.2	the zoom as comments. I still them pass them off as mine. So everyone wins. Well, I win. If you want
0:58.4	to join in those live zoom podcasts, please go and subscribe to History Hit TV. You get many other
1:03.7	benefits. You get access to the Netflix for history. Galaxy of history documentaries available on
1:08.2	there, new stuff being added all the time. You get to listen to all the back of the podcast. You get
1:12.9	to join the live zoom chat once a week. We've got Margaret Millen coming up this week. All sorts of
1:17.5	great people at some of the world's best historians on that live weekly podcast. We've used the code
1:22.8	pod one. That gets you a month for free and your second month is one pound euro or dollar. And then
1:28.2	become a subscriber. Join the revolution in the meantime. Here's Michael Wood.
1:38.3	Michael Wood, thank you very much for coming on the podcast. Great pleasure to be here. This
1:42.4	latest book, you've written a sort of magisterial, great narrative, almost global history of China,
1:47.7	which one of the most important stories in human history. You mentioned, of course, in it that you
1:51.6	have these great passion for China for a long time. Have you been building this all your life?
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