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A Global History from China, Season 6: After the Age of Discovery
The arrival of the age of globalization
Completed · 52 episodes
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Ge Zhaoguang: When the World Truly Entered the Age of Global History 1. The Great Voyages Begin | Should We Say Zheng He Discovered the World? 2. Discovering a New Continent | It Was Not India—it Was America! 3. A Ninety-Thousand-Li Voyage | Francis Xavier and Macao 4. “The Center Is Everywhere” | A New Idea of the Earth 5. After the Portuguese and Spanish, the Dutch Arrive | Colony and Trade 6. Where Did the “Company” Come From? | New Maritime Empires Under a New Institution Bonus | Liang Jie: Why Did Elephants Become International Trade Goods? 7. “Global Addiction” and the Transformation of World Trade | Coffee, Rubber, and Tin 8. The First Global News Event? | The Internet of Global Port Cities 9. Why Did Everyone in Ming China Need Silver? | The Arrival of the “Age of Silver” 10. Great Movement Within East Asia | Silver from Japan 11. How Did Europe Escape Involution? | Silver and the Great Divergence 12. Globalized Ming China Had “Two Fujians” | The Seventeenth-Century Silver Shortage Bonus | What Does ReOrient Argue? | A Global Economic History 13. Did the Renaissance Begin Modern Europe? | Leaving the Middle Ages 14. What Is the Overall Purpose of the Humanities? | New Learning and New Art in the Renaissance 15. Making Europeans More European | The Renaissance Beyond Italy 16. Did China Have a Renaissance? | From Xu Guangqi to Hu Shi Bonus | Liu Yaochun: Why Must Innovation Borrow the Language of Revival? 17. Work Is Sacred and Moral! | Reformation and Protestant Ethic 18. Am I Chosen by God? | Calvinism and the Rise of Capitalism Global History Live | Ge Zhaoguang × Liang Wendao × Duan Zhiqiang: There Are No Islands in World History 19. Was Weber Wrong? | Protestantism and Capitalism 20. What Is Chinese Culture’s “Inward Transcendence”? | Religion Turns Toward the World and Yu Ying-shih Bonus | The Southern Continents After the Age of Discovery: Australia and New Zealand 21. The Industrial Revolution, an Age of Genuine Progress | More Than the Steam Engine 22. To Discuss Industrialization Is to Discuss Cotton | Cotton Connects the World Bonus | Joel Mokyr: Generally, Weaker Government Favors Innovation | Online Scholarly Forum 23. How the Cotton Industry Drove American Slave Imports | Textiles Transform the Old and New Worlds 24. The Cotton War and China’s Difficult Modern Transformation | Industrial Revolution and China 25. Why Does World History Begin with “the Death of Timur the Lame”? | Nomadic Conquerors and Settled Empires 26. Mongolia, Afghanistan, Persia, and India | A Short History of the Mughal Empire 27. Modern Europe’s Rise May Be a Nineteenth-Century Story | Europe in the Eighteenth Century 28. The Mughal Empire’s Final Fall | The British Empire and Colonialism Reading List | A Day of Rest, Volume 2—Happy Mid-Autumn Festival Bonus | A Novelist and an Intellectual Historian in Conversation | Aranya Event Preview 29. Eastern Europe and the Turnover of Empires | Russia and the Russo-Turkish Wars 30. The Qing Empire in the Eighteenth Century | Maximum Territory and an Imperial Worldview 31. Gardening, Medicine, and Aphrodisiacs | The Early History of Opium 32. How Did Opium Become a Global Problem? | The Formation of a Trade System 33. “The Collapse of the Celestial Empire” and “Preparing for Defeat” | Chinese and Japanese Fates in the Opium War 34. A Poor Scholar Thinks About Opium | Two Opium Wars and the World 35. What Are the Basic Ideas and Spirit of Modern International Order? | Europe in the 1640s 36. A Small Regime That Redirected Asian Politics | The Rise of the Manchus 37. Adding a New Factor to the East Asian Order | Qing-Russian Rivalry and the Treaty of Nerchinsk 38. Did the Macartney Embassy Matter So Much? | Sino-British Relations and Civilizational Conflict 39. From an Empire of All-Under-Heaven to One State Among Many | The Arrival of Modern International Law Ge Zhaoguang: The Globe Finally Became One Historical World Ge Zhaoguang: A Global History from China Imagines a New Way to Tell World History Ge Zhaoguang × Liang Wendao × Duan Zhiqiang: When We Begin to Talk Globally | Book Launch, Part I The Authors Discuss Why Global History Matters Today | Book Launch, Part II