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China: As History Is My Witness

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Carrie Gracie presents a series exploring what ten great lives from Chinese history reveal about China today

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Listen to China: As History Is My Witness, a Society & Culture podcast by BBC. Stream 10 episodes in English, follow new audio stories, and play episodes online on Radio and Podcast.

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Episodes

10 episodes are available for this podcast.

Episodes

10 episodes

Old Hundred Names - China's Citizens

At best they have been taken for granted and sometimes they have endured far worse at the hands of China's governments and invaders alike. W...

13:58Oct 19, 2012

Hong Xiuquan - The Rebel

Chinese history can be read as a series of peasant rebellions. One in the 19th Century, led by a man who thought he was Christ's brother, la...

14:08Oct 18, 2012

Wang Anshi - The Mandarin

The behaviour and competence of China's bureaucrats have defined the state for 2,000 years. But in the 11th Century came a visionary who did...

13:53Oct 17, 2012

Liu Bei - The Warlord

Early in the 3rd Century, China's mighty Han empire collapsed. From the wreckage emerged three kingdoms and competing warlords with an eye o...

14:09Oct 16, 2012

Qin Shi Huangdi: The Emperor

There are two Chinese leaders whose final resting place is thronged by tourists - Mao Zedong and Qin Shi Huang, the emperor of terracotta so...

13:48Oct 15, 2012

The Soong Sisters - The Consorts

On one bank of the Huangpu river in Shanghai stands a forest of steel and glass skyscrapers, but on the other - colonial splendour. A centur...

14:08Oct 12, 2012

Du Fu and Li Bai - The Poets

China's two favourite poets were born 1,300 years ago, at the beginning of the 8th Century. The language has changed so little that they rem...

14:10Oct 11, 2012

The Duke of Zhou: The Ancestor

Many Chinese look to Confucius for guidance. But Confucius looked to the Duke of Zhou. He handed power to his nephew 3,000 years ago, but hi...

14:07Oct 10, 2012

Kublai Khan: The Barbarian

China has a love-hate relationship with what is foreign. Traditionally all people beyond the Great Wall were barbarians - only part human. B...

14:03Oct 9, 2012

Sima Qian: China's Great Historian

Free speech has long had a high price in China. Here Sima Qian ponders his privates - and posterity - in a tale that still resonates after m...

14:12Oct 9, 2012

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