Rana Mitter
The S.T. Lee Professor of US-Asia Relations at the Harvard Kennedy School
9 episodes
Appears in multiple episodes with: Julia Lovell, Frances Wood
Covers topics in categories such as:
Empress Dowager Cixi
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the woman who arrived at the Chinese court as a concubine only to become its most powerful figure for the final 50 years of Qing imperial rule.
23 May 2024
Also featuring: Yangwen Zheng, Ronald Po
The May Fourth Movement
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the upheaval in China in 1919 after humiliation in the Versailles Treaty and the sharing of ideas that led to the foundation of the Communist Party.
9 December 2021
Also featuring: Elisabeth Forster, Song-Chuan Chen
The Cultural Revolution
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the decade of upheaval in China under Mao's revolt within his own party, led at first by the Red Guards, from 1966 until his death in 1976
17 December 2020
Also featuring: Sun Peidong, Julia Lovell
The Long March
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the history and symbolism of the Chinese Red Army's escape from the Kuomintang in 1934/5 and Mao Zedong's emergence from it as the future leader
29 November 2018
Also featuring: Sun Shuyun, Julia Lovell
The Sino-Japanese War
Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the Second Sino-Japanese War.
8 May 2014
Also featuring: Barak Kushner, Tehyun Ma
The Ming Voyages
Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the Ming Voyages, the 15th-century naval expeditions led by the Chinese admiral Zheng He.
13 October 2011
Also featuring: Julia Lovell, Craig Clunas
The Taiping Rebellion
Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the Taiping Rebellion, a Chinese civil war which claimed around 20 million lives in the 19th century.
24 February 2011
Also featuring: Frances Wood, Julia Lovell
The Great Wall of China
Melvyn Bragg and guests Julia Lovell, Rana Mitter and Frances Wood discuss The Great Wall of China.
29 April 2010
Also featuring: Julia Lovell, Frances Wood
The Boxer Rebellion
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the Boxer Rebellion, when the Society of Righteous and Harmonious Fists purged China of foreign influences in the summer of 1900.
19 March 2009
Also featuring: Frances Wood, R. G. Tiedemann
HistoryWars involving FranceWars involving the United StatesWars involving the United KingdomPersecution of ChristiansUnited States Marine Corps in the 18th and 19th centuriesWars involving JapanWars involving the Russian EmpireWars involving the Habsburg monarchyRebellions in the Qing dynasty, Eight Banners