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A Global History from China, Season 3: Commodities, Trade, and Material Exchange
How things moved through the world
Completed · 42 episodes
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Audio in Chinese
Ge Zhaoguang: Who Can Still Shut the Door on Materials and Commodities from Around the Globe? 1. Why Did Eastern Silk Inspire Love and Hate? | Silk and the Silk Road 2. Seeking the Secret of the Seres | Silk Production and Its Spread 3. Persian Traders and Chinese Middlemen Face “Eighty-One Trials” | The International Silk Network 4. Silk Art Where Hu and Han Meet: Persian Brocade and a Kesi Mandala 5. A Spanish Silk Mill Closes! | The Trans-Pacific Silk-for-Silver Exchange 6. Treasures of the Belitung Wreck | Porcelain from the South China Sea to the Persian Gulf 7. Suspicious Objects on the Seabed! | Export Porcelain on Asian and African Coasts 8. The East Asian Porcelain Trade-Culture Zone | Sinan Wreck, Goryeo Celadon, and Japanese Imari 9. “Blue and White in a Single Firing” | The Foreign Romance of Blue-and-White and Enamel Ware Bonus | “Four Elephants, Eight Oxen, Seventy-Two Dogs”: Who Supports Chinese Art History? 10. Wherever Profit Leads, Traders Follow | Spice Merchants on the Fourth- to Seventh-Century Land Silk Road 11. “Different Lands, the Same Wind and Moon” | What Did Jianzhen Carry to Japan? 12. Eight Hundred Hu of Pepper Was Nothing | The Pu Shougeng Family and Song Spice Trade 13. Yesterday’s Treasure, Today’s Staple | Zheng He and Ming Spice Trade 14. Worth Its Weight in Pepper | Spice Trade and Venetian Wealth 15. Opening New Sea Routes | Spice Trade and the Rise of the Portuguese Empire Bonus | Spices and Plague: A Perspective on the Global History of Medicine 16. Tea Drinking Takes Skill | How Did Ancient Chinese People Drink Tea? 17. Song Tea Travels East | The Song Origins of the Japanese Tea Ceremony 18. A Mysterious “Herbal Juice” | The Beginning of the Global Tea Trade 19. The Tea “Trade War” | How Did Tea Become Popular in Europe? Bonus | Q&A and Recommended Books About Tea Bonus | Duan Zhiqiang: A Guide to Becoming a Wild Historian 20. Where Did Sugar in the Dunhuang Desert Come From? | From Shageling to Sugarcane 21. Food, Medicine, or Symbol of Authority? | The Evolution of Sugar Making 22. “Sugar Speaks Portuguese” | New World Sugar and the Triangular Trade 23. Chaozhou People Took Sugar into the World | Coastal China and East Asian Sugar Markets Bonus | Liang Jie: How Eating Sugar Became a Moral Problem Bonus | Liang Jie: Wuyi, the Thirteen Factories, and American Independence | Modern Tea Trade Bonus | Zhan Qingyun: Beginning with the Boston Tea Party Bonus | Zhan Qingyun: The History of Trade and the History of Law 24. Writing Materials in East and West | The Invention and Spread of Paper 25. The Best Paper | Which Country Led Papermaking Technology? 26. The Paper Road West | How Far Did Paper Travel? 27. Printing Carries Civilization | Paper, Print, and the Western Renaissance 28. The Mystery of Printing’s Origins | What Did Technology Bring Culture? 29. Printing Changes the World | Popular Books Democratize Knowledge Bonus | Yi Xiaohui: Localization in the Global History of Paper Duan Zhiqiang: Is “Deglobalization” History in Reverse? Q&A | Liang Wendao and Duan Zhiqiang: Everyone Knows This, but I Know Nothing About It Bonus | Summer Special: Duan Zhiqiang’s Memory of Life at Its Peak