People's History of Ideas Podcast
Matthew Rothwell
4.9from 1,153 ratings
- 137
- Episodes
- 25
- Transcribed
- 1,153
- Ratings
- Daily
- Cadence
- 2019
- First episode
- 7K
- YouTube views
About People's History of Ideas Podcast
In this podcast, Matthew Rothwell, author of Transpacific Revolutionaries: The Chinese Revolution in Latin America, explores the global history of ideas related to rebellion and revolution. The main focus of this podcast for the near future will be on the history of the Chinese Revolution, going all the way back to its roots in the initial Chinese reactions to British imperialism during the Opium War of 1839-1842, and then following the development of the revolution and many of the ideas that were products of the revolution through to their transnational diffusion in the late 20th century.
- Publisher
- Matthew Rothwell
- Category
- history · society & culture · society & culture
- Language
- en
- Explicit
- No
- First episode
- 29 May 2019
- Latest episode
- 7 Aug 2026
Latest episodes
25 of 137 episodes have a transcript.
7 Aug 2026TRANSCRIPT
Urban Revolution in Beijing during the Great Leap Forward: An Interview with leading China scholar Fabio Lanza
4 Apr 2026TRANSCRIPT
Winning Over Enemy Troops: Mao’s Leninist Approach to Fomenting Mutiny in the Guomindang (January 1930)
21 Mar 2026TRANSCRIPT
A Single Spark Can Start a Prairie Fire (January 1930) (Part Two)
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Urban Revolution in Beijing during the Great Leap Forward: An Interview with leading China scholar Fabio Lanza
Published 7 Aug 2026 · Transcript excerpt
[…] And you have communal childcare. You establish Kindergarten, creches, nurseries, things like that. Using, again, female labor usually of usually older women. So you get the grannies to run the, you know, the childcare center. You get, you know, the people who are good at cooking to run a communal canteen where you can eat, if not for free, for very little money. And the idea is basically you achieve at the same time two things. You keep production going, you keep increasing production at a rapid speed through basically massive amount of this dispersal of massive amount of voluntary labor, not voluntary, they're paid, but underpaid labor. […]
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- 6,791
- Score snapshot 15 Sept 2025
- Apple Podcasts (US)
- 4.9 / 5
- 156 ratings
- Spotify
- 5.0 / 5
- 997 ratings
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- 0
- YouTube
- 74
- Engagement
- 95
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