What the ’century of humiliation’ means to China today

I really like a phrase I came across in preparing this episode. It comes from  in an article produced by the European Foundation for South Asian Studies called Assessing the ‘Century of Humiliation’. It says how ‘Contextualising history means contextualising behaviour’. To put it the other way round, to understand a country’s behaviour today, we have to look at it in the context of its history. For its historical experiences play a major part in how it sees the world today. And this episode looks at just what China’s ‘century of humiliation’ means to China today and what influence it has on China’s relationships with other nations. 

 

 

Intro and outro music curtesy of slip.stream:

https://slip.stream/tracks/58fb6726-c035-4d10-a8e8-eba70e5164ad