👇🏽 I totally agree.
Thanks Greg! Will check out Cixi!
Just listened to this during a 7 hour trip! It’s a great set of episodes, 10/10 would do it again!
Never hurt a fly. Either of them
Mao
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How did Mao destroy the pillars of traditional culture and violently purge “class enemies”? How far was Uncle Joe his model and how far his rival?
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Mao has declared that China is a communist republic. How did life change for ordinary people living in this new nation? To what extent was Mao’s China modelled on the USSR, and how did Mao and Stalin feel about each other?
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UNCLE JOE & UNCLE MAO
Our Mao biopod continues with the fabulous Rana Mitter
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In this episode, @anitaanand.bsky.social & I are joined once again by Rana Mitter, author of A Bitter Revolution: China’s Struggle with the Modern World, to discuss The Great Leap Forward and its consequences for China and its relationship with the Soviet Union
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How did Mao destroy the pillars of traditional culture and violently purge “class enemies”? How far was Uncle Joe his model and how far his rival?
linktr.ee/empirepoduk
Mao has declared that China is a communist republic. How did life change for ordinary people living in this new nation? To what extent was Mao’s China modelled on the USSR, and how did Mao and Stalin feel about each other?
linktr.ee/empirepoduk
New from @empirepoduk.bsky.social
UNCLE JOE & UNCLE MAO
Our Mao biopod continues with the fabulous Rana Mitter
So somebody on Bluesky recommended the Empire podcast with @anitaanand.bsky.social and...[pause] @willdalrymple.bsky.social. I am obsessed. You will never see me again without my earbuds. The hosts are bloody brilliant and have written books, plus every guest is
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This conversation between @willdalrymple.bsky.social, @anitaanand.bsky.social, and Daniel Immerwahr is excellent:
interesting
For those willing to protest the vile claim by Golda Meir that,"There's no such thing as Palestinians" read this from @willdalrymple.bsky.social www.newstatesman.com/culture/book... "Palestine is one of humanity’s oldest toponyms, and records of a people named after it are as old as literacy itself.
Tour de Force by Stephen Fry chatting relaxed with Anita Anand and William Dalrymple about Homer and the Greeks
i really don’t like these testy brawling locker room guys in charge of military forces.
Maybe not good short term. As you say, Eric Cline (@digkabri.bsky.social) says in new book, and this podcast with @willdalrymple.bsky.social, some nations became successful by exploiting the opportunities that arose.
What are ours? Renewables? Deeper treaties?
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You should really give @empirepoduk.bsky.social a listen, the episodes on partition and the events and people involved are fantastic. @willdalrymple.bsky.social and @anitaanand.bsky.social do a great job of guiding those of us who didn't know anything but the most basic history beforehand.
Donald Trump is losing the Iran war 👇
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Why did 80,000 communists walk across the country in the “Long March”, and how is this retreat reframed in Chinese political memory today? linktr.ee/empirepoduk
Why did the Communists and Nationalists join forces with the USSR during the Chinese Civil War? When did the nationalists purge communists in what is known as the “White Terror”?
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Do you think of him as a model democrat?
