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History Unplugged Podcast

How China Changed Its Language From Archaic Confucian Bureaucracy to the Lingua Franca of Globalization

History Unplugged Podcast

History Unplugged

History, Society & Culture

4.24K Ratings

🗓️ 21 March 2022

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Summary

After a meteoric rise, China today is one of the world’s most powerful nations. Just a century ago, it was a crumbling empire with literacy reserved for the elite few, as the world underwent a massive technological transformation that threatened to...

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History isn't just a bunch of names and dates and facts

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It's the collection of all the stories throughout human history that explain how and why we got here

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Welcome to the History Unplugged Podcast

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Where we look at the forgotten, neglected, strange and even counterfactual stories that made our world what it is

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I'm your host, Scott Rank

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After a meteoric rise, China today is one of the world's most powerful nations

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