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Kodansha History of China, Season 9: The Ming and Qing Eras
Sea and empire
Completed · 49 episodes
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00. Ming and Qing: Decline or Renewal? 01. Did Changes in Trade Systems Drive the Rise and Fall of Chinese Dynasties? 02. Where Did Maritime Trade Begin, and Where Was It Going? 03. Did Climate, Currency, Trade, and Migration Reset the Stage of Early-Modern History? 04. The Yuan's Dilemma: How Did Canal and Sea Provoke Rebellion across the Realm? 05. Why Did Zhu Yuanzhang Prevail among the Late-Yuan Warlords? 06. What Mission Did Culture and Education Serve in Rebuilding State Order? 07. How Did Confucian Ritual and Law Help Build the Ming State? 08. How Did a Small Rebellion Reflect Vast Changes in Eurasian Trade? 09. Was Ming Tribute Really a “Vanity Project”? 10. What Truth Lay behind the Blank-Seal and Hu Weiyong Cases? 11. What Is the Story behind the Great Pagoda Tree Migration Legend? 12. How Unique and Important Was Yunnan to the Ming? 13. What Turbulent Story Lay behind Ma He's Renaming as Zheng He? 14. Zheng He's Seven Voyages: Their Aims, Experiences, and Consequences 15. How Did Sappanwood Trade Provoke Conflict and Strengthen Connections? 16. Were Salt and Silver Both Cure and Poison? 17. Did Ming Huizhou Merchants Share Similar Life Paths? 18. Why Did Ming Overseas Smuggling Arise, Expand, and Persist? 19. How Did Adventuring Merchants and Missionaries Shape Eurasian History? 20. How Did Wang Yangming's Enlightenment Rescue a Fracturing Social Order? 21. How Did the Single-Whip Reform Intensify Central–Local Tensions? 22. Can Private Desire and Moral Order Be Balanced? 23. How Did Trade Reconnect Sea and Land? 24. Was the Maritime Ban a Cause or Consequence of Disorder? 25. Why Did Matteo Ricci Face So Many Obstacles in China? 26. What Historical Undercurrents Lay behind the Fur Trade? 27. Hair or Head? Political Change around the Queue Order 28. How Did Powers in Seventeenth-Century East Asian Seas Change? 29. Submit or Resist: What Befell a Father and Son Who Chose Different Paths? 30. What Were Intellectuals Doing during Dynastic Transition? 31. How Did Encounter and Separation from Christianity Reveal Sino-Western Similarities and Differences? 32. Why Did Brokers Become Central to Trade in Prosperous Ports? 33. How Did Industries Develop in the Northeast and Qinling Mountains? 34. What Does Sino-Japanese Seafood Trade Reveal about East Asian Maritime Order? 35. What Did Chinese Workers Going Abroad and British Arrivals in China Each Seek? 36. Why Did Qing Emperors Have Many “Faces”? 37. How Did Qing Central and Local Government Operate? 38. What Did Chen Hongmou Do to Develop Yunnan, Jiangxi, Shaanxi, and Fujian? 39. What Problems Did the Influx of Silver Bring to Society? 40. Why Did the Qing Population Explode? Bonus | A Silent God and a Believer Destroyed 41. How Did Chinese Pirates Grow in Power? 42. How Did British Ships Replace Pirates as the Sea's Protagonists? 43. How Did Opium Spread through China? 44. Tea, Opium, Bills of Exchange: How Did East India Company Trade Circulate? 45. What Role Did Intelligence Play in the Opium War? 46. How Did Bankrupt Workers and Peasants Become a Subversive Force for Social Change? 47. Was Ming–Qing Chinese Society Really Stagnant?