global sixties

Episode 133: How Brainwashing was Good and Maoist Propaganda was True: An Interview with leading China scholar Aminda Smith

March 7, 2026

This interview with Dr. Aminda Smith of Michigan State University touches on topics including why good PRC history is left history; thought reform, … [Read more...] about Episode 133: How Brainwashing was Good and Maoist Propaganda was True: An Interview with leading China scholar Aminda Smith

Episode 21: The Road Is Tortuous: The Chinese Revolution and the End of the Global Sixties

May 28, 2020

A podcast version of my recently published article which argues that the rightward turn of Chinese politics in the 1970s was a key contributing factor … [Read more...] about Episode 21: The Road Is Tortuous: The Chinese Revolution and the End of the Global Sixties