The history of consumerism and Chinese philosophy

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🗓️ 28 April 2016

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Frank Trentmann explores how our patterns of consumption have changed over the centuries, while Christine Gross-Loh discusses the legacy of ancient Chinese thinkers Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:55.0	Germans tend to be seen as extremely clean and tidy people. But one generation ago, men and women only changed their underwear every two or three days. So that's not so long ago. So how have these changes come about? That was Frank Trentman talking to us about how consumerism has changed over the
1:01.2	past 500 years. They saw Confucius himself, the example of someone who was putting his ideas into
1:07.1	practice. He was basically a model of someone who was trying to cultivate himself to be a
1:12.5	better human being. And that was Christine Grosslow, speaking about one of the best-known Chinese
1:17.9	philosophers. You're listening to the History Extra podcast from BBC History Magazine.
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2:01.3	Hello and welcome to our fourth podcast of April 2016. I'm Rob Atar, the editor of BBC
2:08.5	History magazine. Our first interview this week is with Professor Frank Trentman, a historian
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