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Cover of Thirty Lectures on Modern Chinese Social History
Thirty Lectures on Modern Chinese Social History
Thirty years of everyday change in Chengdu from the late Qing to the early Republic
Completed · 35 episodes
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Audio in Chinese
Luo Xin: Changing Our Broad Understanding of Modern History Liang Jie: See Everyone's Street with New Eyes Duan Zhiqiang: My Life “On the Street” 1. From the Recent Past to the Modern: How Do We Look Back at Chinese Social History? 2. Let Small Streets and Alleys Take Us Back 3. On the City Wall: Public Space, Ordinary People, and Freedom 4. Street Clamor: The Vitality of Small Vendors 5. Teahouse Culture: An All-Purpose Space in Leisurely Chengdu 6. Folk Mediation over Tea: How Grassroots Communities Maintained Order 7. Popular Entertainment: Street Theater from Moral Lectures to Shoulder-Pole Troupes 8. Making a Living at the Bottom: Drifters, Laborers, and the City's Many Trades 9. Community Self-Government: How Funerals, Qingming, and Temple Festivals Built Community 10. Rebuilding Public Space: How Did the Reform Movement Change Individual Lives? 11. Reforming the “Uncivilized”: “Ignorant” Tradition and “Progressive” Western Morality 12. Creating Popular Entertainment: Why Did Controlling Shopping and Theater Matter? 13. Upgraded Consumption: Cars, Electricity, and “The Body's New Appearance” 14. Governing the City: The Creation of Modern Police Institutions 15. Policing Public Order: Suppressing Ruffians, Gamblers, and Opium 16. Police and Everyday Life: How Did People Lose Their Freedom? 17. Surveilling the People: The Nationalist Government and Local Elites 18. Class Conflict: Social Ranks inside the Teahouse 19. Social Exclusion: The Divide between “Urbanites” and “Country Bumpkins” Bonus | Wang Di × Luo Xin: Historians Have a Duty to Recover Some Justice 20. Women's “Liberation”: Fighting for a Place of Their Own 21. Prostitutes and “Former Prostitutes”: Resistance and Survival among Poor Women 22. The Anger of the Weak: Chengdu Sedan-Chair Bearers and Everyday Resistance 23. The Kingdom of Beggars: How Did Society's Poorest Find Room to Survive? 24. Eliminating Beggars from the Street: Beggar Factories and Suppressed Survival 25. Reform Elites “Enlighten the People”: A Stage for Public Politics 26. The Lower Classes “Make Revolution”: How Did Street Politics Emerge? 27. The People Need to Resist: What Empty Promises Did the Revolutionary Era Make? 28. Living in Fear: Social Turmoil in the Early Republic 29. Citizens Organize for Self-Defense: Paoge and Popular Secret Societies 30. Searching for David Crockett Graham Wang Di × Leung Man-tao: Does the Life of More Than 95 Percent of the People Not Deserve Study?