Chinese Revolutions: A History Podcast
1) S01E37 Taiping Rebellion: Taiping Propaganda Under Hong Rengan
S01E37 Taiping Rebellion: Taiping Propaganda Under Hong Rengan Here we go, grinding back into gear with this year's episodes. This episode's title addresses one of the main actual insights in the epis...Show More
2) S01E36 Taiping Rebellion: Other Foreign Visitors to the Taiping
S01E36 Taiping Rebellion: Other Foreign Visitors to the Taiping In this episode, we look at more of the visitors to Hong Rengan, effective foreign minister for the Taiping. First is Griffith John, a W...Show More
3) S01E35 Taiping Rebellion: Issachar Roberts
S01E35 Taiping Rebellion: Issachar Roberts In the present look at Hong Rengan in the Taiping hierarchy, we are looking at some of the foreigners who drifted over to the Taiping side. This episode focu...Show More
4) S01E34 Taiping Rebellion: Foreigners and Revolutions
S01E34 Taiping Rebellion: Foreigners and Revolutions In this episode we're shifting back to look at the Taiping side of the Taiping Rebellion. We look at how the Taiping Rebellion works out to be a fa...Show More
5) S01E33 Taiping Rebellion: Siege of Anqing Begins
S01E33 Taiping Rebellion: Siege of Anqing Begins In this episode, we wrap up a bunch of episodes on Zeng Guofan. We talk about the human element in war, how Zeng Guofan is conserving his troops' moral...Show More
6) S01E32 Taiping Rebellion: Zeng Guofan Perfects His Strategy
S01E32 Taiping Rebellion: Zeng Guofan Perfects His Strategy In this episode, we see Zeng Guofan start to get a grip on the task of fighting the Taiping Rebellion. He has to balance between the politic...Show More
7) S01E31 Taiping Rebellion: Zeng Guofan Starts Attacking
S01E31 Taiping Rebellion: Zeng Guofan Starts Attacking In this episode, we go over the organization of Zeng Guofan's army and the first few years of his campaigns against the Taiping rebels. We are fo...Show More
8) S01E30 Taiping Rebellion: Zeng Guofan Builds His Army
S01E30 Taiping Rebellion: Zeng Guofan Builds His Army In this episode, we look at the process that Zeng Guofan went through to build his army. When he was in Hunan to mourn the death of his mother, in...Show More
9) S01E29 Taiping Rebellion: Introducing Zeng Guofan
S01E29 Taiping Rebellion: Introducing Zeng Guofan This week we regroup and look at the big picture of what the Taiping Rebellion is showing about the theme of our podcast, and we introduce Zeng Guofan...Show More
10) S01E28 Taiping Rebellion: Unequal Treaties and Modernizing China
S01E28 Taiping Rebellion: Unequal Treaties and Modernizing China This week, we're talking about how the unequal treaties forced on China during the Second Opium War further clarified anti-imperialism ...Show More