Ep. 341 | The History of Chinese Medicine (Part 5)
The series concludes in this Part 5 episode that takes the history up to the Qing Dynasty
Ep. 340 | The History of Chinese Medicine (Part 4)
For the 2024 Year-End Closing episode, we continue on with the History of Chinese Medicine during the Sòng.
Ep. 339 | The History of Chinese Medicine (Part 3)
The history of the development of medicine continues with the people and events of the Song, Jin, and Yuan Dynasties.
Ep. 338 | The History of Chinese Medicine (Part 2)
The History of Chinese Medicine continues right here.
Ep. 337 | The History of Chinese Medicine (Part 1)
In this episode, we start a new series that looks at the history of Chinese Medicine or TCM.
Ep. 334 | Qian Xuesen (Part 1)
In Part 1 we'll look at Qian Xuesen’s — also known as “The Father of China's Missile and Space Program” early life, how he came to America, and his work up to 1950.
Ep. 309 | Drs. Ida Kahn and Mary Stone
Laszlo introduces the lives of Doctors Ida Kahn and Mary Stone, two Jiujiang, Jiangxi-born women who played a major role in introducing western medicine to women and children in early 20th century China
Ep. 179 | The Ancient History of Silk
The history of silk is really an amazing testament to humankind’s ingenuity and the randomness of life since Neolithic times.
Ep. 156 | Joseph Needham (Part 2)
In this Part 2 episode, we pick up in 1943 right after Joseph Needham returned from his perilous adventure to the northwest of China to visit the sights of Dunhuang.
Ep. 155 | Joseph Needham (Part 1)
A true friend of China for most of his adult life, Dr. Joseph Needham’s contribution was the epic work “Science and Civilization in China”. In this Part 1 episode, we only go up to 1943 and the end of Needham’s first expedition in China.
Ep. 153 | The History of Opium in China
In this episode, Laszlo examines opium’s history in China and Britain’s participation in the Opium War. The focus of this episode is on opium’s history in China prior to the Opium War.
Ep. 125 | Zhuge Liang
In this episode, we explore the life and times of Zhuge Liang, a man most remembered for his cleverness and someone that many consider him right up there with Sun Tzu as far as the works of strategy and military science he left behind.
Ep. 114 | Shang Oracle Bones
This episode takes a slightly deeper look at the Shang Dynasty and their signature achievement, the Oracle Bone Script.
Ep. 113 | Dr. Norman Bethune
This week we look at the Canadian and international hero Dr. Norman Bethune. Bethune is a staple among noted western friends and advisors who came to China in 1938 to help the Communists and the people in their struggle against the Japanese.
Ep. 98 | The Great Jesuit Scholars: Ricci, Schall, and Verbiest
In this longer than usual episode, we feature the three giants of the Jesuit China Mission of the 16th and 17th centuries: Matteo Ricci, Johann Adam Schall von Bell, and Ferdinand Verbiest.
Ep. 3 | The Four Great Inventions
Today we look at the Four Great Inventions, the 四大发明, that Lord Francis Bacon hailed as having done more than anything else to transform completely the modern world and mark it off from antiquity and the Middle Ages.