Monthly Archives: August 29, 2025

Interview with Professor Emily Mokros – Peking Gazette

Today, I get to speak with Professor Emily Mokros about her fascinating book, The Peking Gazette in Late Imperial China – State News and Political Authority. The book is about a media outlet in the Qing Dynasty that published discussions that the emperor held with his bureaucrats.  The book is available for purchase here at the […]

Mao Zedong – Soaked Garden in Spring – Snow

This episode, the podcast takes a look at a poem Mao Zedong wrote in February 1936, after he and his party had undergone the near-death experience of the Long March. Yet still, Mao has the gumption to imply in the poem that he would be the greatest ruler China had ever seen.  My Translation: Original […]