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The Spectrum of Civilization: M Series Reading Guide, Season 3
Looking across the world, why do civilizations differ?
Completed · 43 episodes
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Audio in Chinese
Leung Man-tao: How Can Others' Histories Help Us See Our Present? Xu Zhiyuan: Why Understand Other Peoples' Histories and Cultures? 1. Leung Man-tao: Why Did American Independence Contain “Hypocrisy”? | Rough Crossings 1 2. Leung Man-tao: What Did Slavery Reveal about Europe and America? | Rough Crossings 2 3. Leung Man-tao: Were Indispensable Protagonists Needed to Abolish Slavery? | Rough Crossings 3 4. Leung Man-tao: What Do We Misunderstand about Indonesia? | Indonesia, Etc. 1 5. Leung Man-tao: Why Is Indonesia an “Imagined Community”? | Indonesia, Etc. 2 6. Xiao Xi Zhi Shui: What Drives Changes in Japanese Civilization? | Inventing Japan 1 7. Xiao Xi Zhi Shui: What Lies at the Core of Japanese Civilization? | Inventing Japan 2 8. Xiao Xi Zhi Shui: Emperor Meiji—Wise Ruler or Puppet? | Emperor of Japan 1 9. Xiao Xi Zhi Shui: Was Emperor Meiji Responsible for the Sino-Japanese War? | Emperor of Japan 2 10. Xiao Xi Zhi Shui: Was the Prime Minister's Assassin Villain or Hero? | Mirror of Japan 1 11. Xiao Xi Zhi Shui: What Other Contradictions Define Japanese Culture? | Mirror of Japan 2 12. Xiao Xi Zhi Shui: What Lies behind Tokyo's Prosperity and Avant-Garde? | Tokyo: A Biography 1 13. Xiao Xi Zhi Shui: Rediscovering Japan through Film | Tokyo: A Biography 2 14. Liu Wenfei: How Was Russia's National Character Formed? | Natasha's Dance 1 15. Liu Wenfei: What Is Different about a Literary Cultural History? | Natasha's Dance 2 16. Cao Yin: Is Diversity a Protective Color for Privilege? | Capital City 1 17. Cao Yin: Do Markets and Capital Necessarily Bring Prosperity? | Capital City 2 18. Zheng Fei: What Human Tragedy Was the Rwandan Genocide? | We Wish to Inform You 1 19. Zheng Fei: Why Did Killing Happen between Neighbors? | We Wish to Inform You 2 20. Xiong Peiyun: Is Law a Precision Machine or Humanity's Hope? | Flowers on a Broken Arm 21. Xiong Peiyun: How Can One Take “Gentle Revenge” on Racial Inequality? | No Future Without Forgiveness 22. Xiong Peiyun: Where Did Freedom Come From for South Africa's First Black President? | Long Walk to Freedom 23. Zhang Weijie: Why Did a Passionate “Liberator” Bring Suffering to Latin America? | Bolívar 1 24. Zhang Weijie: What Did the “Liberator” Try to Do for Latin America? | Bolívar 2 25. Teng Wei: Where Did Latin America's Poverty and Turmoil Come From? | Open Veins of Latin America 1 26. Teng Wei: Is Latin America Alone to Blame for Its Predicament? | Open Veins of Latin America 2 27. Tai Yuri: How Did People Live after Leaving the Old Regime? | Past Imperfect 1 28. Tai Yuri: How Should Crimes Committed in Fanatical Faith Be Judged? | Past Imperfect 2 29. Xu Ben: What Makes Secret-Police Rule Terrifying? | Under a Cruel Star 1 30. Xu Ben: How Does Hidden Violence Break Humanity Down? | Under a Cruel Star 2 31. Leung Man-tao: How Did East Germany's Secret-Police System Operate? | Stasiland 1 32. Leung Man-tao: Why Did Betrayal Become a “Virtue”? | Stasiland 2 33. Shang Zhaoqi: How Did One Samurai Shape Japanese History? | Sakamoto Ryōma 1 34. Shang Zhaoqi: Why Did the Meiji Restoration Succeed? | Sakamoto Ryōma 2 35. Gao Lin: What Forged Europe's Shared Culture? | The Making of Europe 1 36. Gao Lin: Is Social Progress the Work of Geniuses or the Choice of the Many? | The Making of Europe 2 37. Gao Lin: Why Did a Wedding of Reconciliation End in Slaughter? | St. Bartholomew's Day Massacre 1 38. Gao Lin: Which Political Forces Were Involved in the St. Bartholomew's Day Massacre? | Part 2 39. Gao Lin: How Did One Massacre Shape French History? | Part 3 40. Wang Zhihan: What Dreams Does the Arab World Dream? | The Dream Palace of the Arabs 1 41. Wang Zhihan: Where Does the Arab Path to Modernity Lead? | The Dream Palace of the Arabs 2