After a holiday delay, Laszlo is back with the 7th and almost final episode of our overview of Ezra Vogel’s new biography of Deng. In this episode, we look at the meat and potatoes of the Reform years from 1979 to 1989.
In this concluding episode, we enter the 20th century and explore the end of French domination in Indochina, Vietnam’s fight to unify the country, and the most recent Sino-Viet history.
Zheng Yi Sao was a tough woman from the Pearl River Delta who married the most notorious pirate of his day, Zheng Yi. Upon his death, she took control of his massive pirate fleet and grew it to what was, at the time, the largest pirate fleet that preyed on coastal dwellers and vessels engaged in trade.
In this bonus one-hour+ episode we look at the last six years of Zhou Enlai’s life. In between doing great things for China and guiding the country’s general well-being, he was forced to play a central role in some of the worst internecine politics in CCP history.
In this longer than expected 7th episode of our Zhou Enlai series, the Cultural Revolution gets underway, something that Zhou will have to deal with until his dying day.
In Part 6 of our Zhou Enlai series, we look at the second half of the 1950s. Zhou was as busy as ever, setting up the government, handling foreign relations, and dealing with Chairman Mao.
In Part 4 of our Zhou Enlai overview, the focus is on the Korean War and the Geneva Conference. Zhou already enjoyed some degree of international respect from those he had come to know during his Shanghai and Chongqing years.
In this Part 4 episode of our Zhou Enlai series Laszlo re-tells the always amusing story of when the Americans came around Yan’an to kick the tires of the CCP and see what they were all about.
In this Part 3 episode, the story of Zhou Enlai is taken all the way up to the 1943 Yan’an Rectification Campaign. We’ll look at the Zunyi Conference, the Long March, the Xian Incident, and finally the ill-fated Second United Front.
In this second part of our overview of Premier Zhou Enlai, Laszlo picks up at the Zhongshan Gunboat Incident and follows the life of Zhou Enlai through the challenging years of 1926-1934.
Laszlo is pleased to present an interview with longtime Hong Kong resident, writer, and cartoonist Larry Feign to discuss his new novel The Flower Boat Girl.