Chinese Characters - Rana Mitter torrent

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Language: EnglishKeywords: BBC Full Cast History Radio 4
Written by Rana Mitter
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Chinese Characters
A BBC History of China in 20 Lives
By: Rana Mitter
Narrated by: Rana Mitter
Length: 5 hrs and 14 mins
Radio/TV Program
Release date: 24-02-2022
Language: English
Publisher: BBC Audio
Twenty audio portraits telling the story of China through key personalities - plus a bonus edition of In Our Time.
Award-winning author and historian Professor Rana Mitter introduces us to some of the remarkable individuals who have shaped the arc of Chinese history. Selecting men and women from ancient times to the modern era - some rich and powerful, others poor and unknown - he explores their sensational life stories, from Mongol emperors to 19th-century factory girls.
Here is China’s only female emperor, Wu Zetian, whose path to the top was littered with elite corpses; Mao Zedong, the man who revolutionised China, but at the cost of millions of lives; and Deng Xiaoping, who enabled China’s economic miracle, but crushed protests with ferocity in 1989. Alongside them are numerous other extraordinary characters, including celebrated philosopher Confucius, Muslim sailor Zheng He, Jesuit mathematician Matteo Ricci, global film star Bruce Lee - and a pioneering TV documentary series, River Elegy, that started a national debate about regeneration and democracy.
What can Ding Ling’s lustful literary creation, Sophie, teach us about 1920s China? What role would kidnapped monk Kumarajiva play in the future of Chinese chanting? And how did Chiang Kai-shek and Soong Meiling become Asia’s first power couple? Rana Mitter reveals the answers in this engrossing series, which ranges across time and geography to zoom in on the people and ideas that have made China what it is today. Insightful, stimulating and superbly researched, it shows the astonishing diversity and complexity of Chinese society, painting a multi-dimensional picture of the world’s most populous nation.
Also included is an episode of In Our Time, in which Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss China’s Warring States period of 400 BC-AD 200, examining how this turbulent epoch sparked a Golden Age of intellectual and cultural productivity and laid the foundations for the first Chinese Empire.
P.S. If you say thank you, you get another book. ;)
Chinese Characters
A BBC History of China in 20 Lives
By: Rana Mitter
Narrated by: Rana Mitter
Length: 5 hrs and 14 mins
Radio/TV Program
Release date: 24-02-2022
Language: English
Publisher: BBC Audio

Twenty audio portraits telling the story of China through key personalities - plus a bonus edition of In Our Time.

Award-winning author and historian Professor Rana Mitter introduces us to some of the remarkable individuals who have shaped the arc of Chinese history. Selecting men and women from ancient times to the modern era - some rich and powerful, others poor and unknown - he explores their sensational life stories, from Mongol emperors to 19th-century factory girls.

Here is China’s only female emperor, Wu Zetian, whose path to the top was littered with elite corpses; Mao Zedong, the man who revolutionised China, but at the cost of millions of lives; and Deng Xiaoping, who enabled China’s economic miracle, but crushed protests with ferocity in 1989. Alongside them are numerous other extraordinary characters, including celebrated philosopher Confucius, Muslim sailor Zheng He, Jesuit mathematician Matteo Ricci, global film star Bruce Lee - and a pioneering TV documentary series, River Elegy, that started a national debate about regeneration and democracy.

What can Ding Ling’s lustful literary creation, Sophie, teach us about 1920s China? What role would kidnapped monk Kumarajiva play in the future of Chinese chanting? And how did Chiang Kai-shek and Soong Meiling become Asia’s first power couple? Rana Mitter reveals the answers in this engrossing series, which ranges across time and geography to zoom in on the people and ideas that have made China what it is today. Insightful, stimulating and superbly researched, it shows the astonishing diversity and complexity of Chinese society, painting a multi-dimensional picture of the world’s most populous nation.

Also included is an episode of In Our Time, in which Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss China’s Warring States period of 400 BC-AD 200, examining how this turbulent epoch sparked a Golden Age of intellectual and cultural productivity and laid the foundations for the first Chinese Empire.

P.S. If you say thank you, you get another book. ;)