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A Missing History of Republican China: The Story of Li Guangming
Revisiting nation-building and disorder in twentieth-century China
Completed · 45 episodes
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Audio in Chinese
Yang Zhao: Li Guangming and the Shock of Marginality Can Teach Us a Great Deal Luo Xin: Knowledge and Creation, Past and Future, Are All in This Story Duan Zhiqiang: Weaving This History and Life into Our Own Sea of Thought Recommended by a “Student”: Feeling Again “the Pain of Bare Feet on Sharp Stones” Wang Mingke: A Three-Act Film Staging “One Man's History of Republican China” Q&A 1: Why Have So Many Major Recent Archaeological Discoveries Occurred around the Central Plains? 1. Between Civilizing Rule and Mountain Peril: “If It Falls Apart, So Be It—I'll Go Back to Guan County” 2. The “Three Heroes” of Guan County: Serve the Nation through Scholarship or Military Government? 3. The Birth of the Institute of History and Philology: How Was the Kangxi Succession Edict Preserved during National Crisis? Q&A 2: To Discover How an Era Is Constructed, Can We “Take Ourselves as Method”? 4. Ambition and Prejudice: Li Guangming's Outline Plan for a Survey of Sichuan and Xikang 5. Fu Sinian's “Rebuke”: Anyang's Yin Ruins Cost Just over 300—What Do You Need 1,500 For? 6. Entering Wenchuan: How Do People Construct Historical Memories of Their Ancestors? 7. Tusi, Qiang, and Indigenous People: How Did We See One Another before Ethnic Identities Were Fixed? Q&A 3: Brother-Ancestors and Local Gods—How Do We Imagine an Age of “Making Citizens”? 8. The Gansu Army Rebellion: Turning Back from Diexi to Chengdu and Writing Fu Sinian Again amid Terror 9. “Between Qiang and Tibetan”: Can People of the Same Ethnicity Speak Mutually Unintelligible Languages? 10. Before Ethnic Identities Were Recognized, Who Counted as “One of Us”? 11. Between Han and Fan: Blurred “Ethnic Identity” on the Frontier Q&A 4: How Should We Understand Differences among Ethnic Groups Today? 12. A Native Official's Complaint: Wouldn't It Be Better If the Qing Emperor Returned? | Miscellaneous Notes on Western Fan 1 Q&A 5: Among Tibetan and Qiang Communities, Is the Village Often the Core Unit of Identity? 13. Different Times within One Era: How Do Center and Frontier Understand the “Nation”? | Miscellaneous Notes on Western Fan 2 14. Lama Langri: How Can Humans Defeat Heaven's Calculations? | Miscellaneous Notes on Western Fan 3 Q&A 6: Is Ethnicity in Fact an Anthropological “Invention”? 15. Where Does Our Consensus about “Era and Ethnicity” Come From? | Miscellaneous Notes on Western Fan 4 16. The Past and Present Lives of Living Buddha Cheng: “Food, Drink, Sex, and Gambling—I Want It All”? | Miscellaneous Notes on Western Fan 5 Q&A 7: Where Did Savage Images of the Xiao Heishui People and “Boguozhi” Come From? 17. Living by “Raiding”: Were the Boguozhi Mysterious and Terrifying Mountain Bandits? 18. They Are Not Objects of Historical Study but “Living Individuals” Q&A 8: What Changed in Western Sichuan over Thirty Years? Extra | How Do You Find Your Life's Vocation? 19. Do Li Guangming's Records Let Us See the “Chicks Killed” by History? 20. How Did a “Revolutionary Youth” Abandon the Pen for the Sword in a Time of Upheaval? 21. How Did Li Guangming Move around the Core of Power amid Nationalist Military and Political Chaos? 22. “Military Government and Scholarship”: Chongqing and Chengdu as Gatherings of Eminent Figures in an Extraordinary Time 23. Disorder on the Sichuan-Xikang Frontier and the Bloody Struggle of Republican China's Opium-Suppression Campaign 24. The Eve of Calm: What Undercurrents Moved beneath the Disorder in Xikang? 25. The Killing of Wang Yineng: Collusion and Conflict between Officials and Bandits in Republican China 26. The Death of Li Guangming: He “Died for the Way,” Yet No One Dared Claim His Body 27. The Fall of “Taiwan on Land”: A Singular Turn of Fate 28. A Century of Nation-Building in China: Remaking the “Chinese Frontier” Q&A 9: Before “Nationalism,” Was the World Really an Ideal Place? Conclusion 29. A Thousand-Year Search for the “Qiang”: What Are We Actually Seeking? Extra | Even Dogs in Japan Are Repressed? Talking Travel with an Anthropologist