In this episode, we dive headlong into the collapse of imperial China with our first female effer-upper, Empress Dowager Cixi. Podcast to Recommend: The History of China (<a href="https://thehistoryofchina.wordpress.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://thehistoryofchina.wordpress.com/</a>) Sources<ul><li>Hsu, Immanuel. The Rise of Modern China, 6th ed. Oxford, England: Oxford U. Press, 1999.</li><li>Kwong, Luke. A Mosaic of the Hundred Days: Personalities, Politics, and the Ideas of 1898. Cambridge, MA: Harvard U. Press, 1984.</li><li>Laidler, Keith. The Lost Empress: She-Dragon of China. Chichester, England: Wiley, 2003.</li><li>Muhlhahn, Klaus. Making China Modern: From the Great Qing to Xi Jinping. Cambridge, MA: Harvard U. Press, 2019.</li></ul> <hr> Hosted on Acast. See <a style='color:grey;' target='_blank' rel='noopener noreferrer' href='https://acast.com/privacy'>acast.com/privacy</a> for more information.

Episode 35: Robert Stockton

On this humorous and informative show, a long-time history lover and a history rookie discuss pivotal moments in time when someone effed up, and unwittingly changed the course of history.Cover art: The Course of Empire: Destruction, Thomas Cole Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.