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Season 1

Monday, December 7, 2020 Money and Lending in Ancient China: Copper Talks

The anticipated listing and the unexpected suspension put the microloan business of Alibaba's fintech arm Ant Group in the media spotlight. Chinese pe...

Monday, November 30, 2020 A Venture with Reasons: Or Without?

Do people travel just because they got rich enough to afford a trip? “The world is so big, and I want to look at it,” says a middle school teacher fr...

Monday, November 23, 2020 To Be Rich is Glorious: A Short History of Showing off Wealth in China

A group of young women in Shanghai group-bought luxury bags and booking rooms at five-star hotels just to take photos and pass them off as their own ...

Monday, November 16, 2020 Food Security in Ancient Times: Power of Dinner Tables

To a large extent, food supply shaped the development of the world’s early civilizations, including those in ancient Mesopotamia, Egypt and India. In ...

Monday, November 9, 2020 Ancient Chinese Villages: An Illusion of Shangrila

There was a lot of imagination in narratives on rural areas in ancient China. For thousands of years, rural villages have existed. Why would they nee...

Sunday, November 1, 2020 Child Education in Ancient China: Gentlemen and Scholars

“Tragic family of origin”, a term taken from family counseling, has become a hashtag in recent years after stories of conflict between parents and chi...

Saturday, October 24, 2020 Chinese Students in the US: an unaccomplished mission

The UK replaced the US as the favorite intended destination of Chinese students in 2019, and the gap was even wider in 2020 due to the tension between...

Friday, October 9, 2020 Chinese Students in Japan: Revolutionaries

Today Japan is the host country of the second largest group of Chinese students abroad, second to the US. Japan hosted the largest number of Chinese s...

Sunday, September 27, 2020 Astronomy in Ancient China: Science & Humanity

The Beidou Satellite Navigation System, the spacecraft Crew Dragon --- while grappling with the COVID-19 pandemic on Earth, humans have made several l...

Wednesday, September 16, 2020 Gold, Silver, Wealth and War

Prices of gold and silver skyrocketed in the first half of the year amid uncertainties of the global economic prospect. China has a long history of us...

Sunday, September 6, 2020 Wuhan: Rediscovery, Restart

In the first decade of the 20th century, today’s Hankou District of Wuhan became the second-largest port in China, only following Shanghai and exceedi...

Friday, August 28, 2020 Floods Made China’s Early Civilizations

Chinese civilization began in the middle and downstream of the Yellow River and the Yangtze River. Unlike the Nile flooding which brought prosperity, ...

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on 7/18/2024

Thanks for bringing the ancient story of the famous poet. Love such kinds of lyrical poets' life history and tales. It's Short, sweet, and to the point while being an entertaining and informative less...

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on 6/3/2024

She was an Incredible lady. I’ve learned enough about the China’s first female general. This is the only episode that made my mind to listen to more than three times. Undoubtedly Listen-friendly conte...

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