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Guerrilla History

The Taiping & Boxer Rebellions w/ Ken Hammond (Modern Chinese History Pt. 1)

Guerrilla History

Henry

Education, History

4.8669 Ratings

🗓️ 22 March 2024

⏱️ 94 minutes

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Summary

In this episode of Guerrilla History, we launch our 4 part miniseries on modern Chinese history featuring Ken Hammond (and guest host Breht O'Shea of Revolutionary Left Radio) with this terrific discussion on the Taiping and Boxer Rebellions!  Be sure to go back and listen to the previous episode we did with Ken in the fall, which serves as a bit of an introductory work for this miniseries. The other three installments will drop every other week (with other episodes in between), and will cover the Chinese Revolution/Civil War, the Great Leap Forward and Cultural Revolution, and the Reform period, so be sure to subscribe to not miss any of those coming episodes!

Ken Hammond is Professor of East Asian and Global History at New Mexico State University. He has been engaged in radical politics since his involvement in the anti-war movement at Kent State in 1968-70.  Ken is also the author of the book China's Revolution & the Quest for a Socialist Future.

Help support the show by signing up to our patreon, where you also will get bonus content: https://www.patreon.com/guerrillahistory 

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You don't remember Den Van Booh?

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No!

0:10.0

The same thing happened in Algeria, in Africa.

0:14.0

They didn't have anything but a rank.

0:17.0

The French had all these highly mechanized instruments of warfare, but they put some guerrilla action on.

0:28.6

Hello and welcome to guerrilla history, the podcast that acts as a reconnaissance report of global proletarian history and aims to use the lessons of history to analyze the present.

0:39.1

I'm one of your co-host, Sanry Hakimaki, unfortunately not joined by my usual co-host,

0:44.3

Adnan Hussein. We are, however, joined by a special guest host who will be familiar to many of you,

0:49.9

listeners. I'm pretty sure that we can say that at this point. Our guest host is Brett O'Shea,

0:56.5

who, unless you missed that last episode that we put out, Brett has at this point officially

1:02.6

left the show, but to demonstrate that it was on amicable terms, Brett is coming back to co-host

1:08.3

this series on a guest hosting basis. So, Brett, it's nice to see you again, although there hasn't really been any gap since the last time I saw you. Absolutely. It is a little weird to hear that, you know, the guest co-host thing, but I'm just happy to continue doing whatever work we can together. Loved our three and a half years together and just really want to drive home the point that it's certainly not the end. It's just a change. So happy to be here. Yeah, absolutely. And of course,

1:33.3

knowing that Adnan is not able to make it today, I couldn't ask for a better guest host than

1:37.7

somebody who I've been hosting the show with for the last three and a half years anyway.

1:42.3

Now, we do have a returning guest and this this is the start of an excellent mini-series that we

1:49.0

have planned, which we've actually been planning for the last almost half a year.

1:53.4

But before I introduce the miniseries and the guest, I would like to remind listeners that

1:57.9

you can help support the show by joining us on patreon.com

2:01.7

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2:08.9

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of us are doing individually, as well as what the show is putting out collectively.

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