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BBC Audio + Transcript: Seeing Chinese Historical Figures Through the Eyes of Western Friends

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I recent­ly read (or heard) a series of arti­cles on the BBC com­mem­o­rat­ing Chi­nese his­tor­i­cal fig­ures, which I found very inter­est­ing. I heard that there may be ten arti­cles in total when they are pub­lished. The author is a British female jour­nal­istCar­rie
Gra­cie, you can find her infor­ma­tion on Eng­lish Wikipedia. Not only did she work and study in Chi­na, she also mar­ried a Chi­nese musi­cian and had chil­dren, so she is half Chi­nese.…Bless this fam­i­ly!

   
After read­ing a few arti­cles care­ful­ly, I feelCar­rie
While Gra­cie’s writ­ing isn’t quite the schol­ar­ly elo­quence it pos­sess­es, its per­spec­tive is unique, its ideas intrigu­ing, and its emo­tion­al depth mov­ing. While one does­n’t nec­es­sar­i­ly have to agree or reject the author’s views, view­ing them from a fresh per­spec­tive can be quite eye-open­ing.



 
  The fol­low­ing are the address­es of sev­er­al texts and audios that have been pub­lished so far:


    【Title】China: As
His­to­ry is My Wit­ness
    【Introduction】From emper­ors to
poets to gen­er­als, the BBC’s for­mer Bei­jing cor­re­spon­dent Car­rie
Gra­cie explores the lives of key fig­ures from Chi­na’s rich past to
exam­ine how Chi­nese soci­ety has evolved over the past 3,000
years.
   
http://www.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/series/china
   
(This address is the address of the audio album, there is MP3 and pod­cast ver­sion suit­able for Apple, which is quite thought­ful)

    The Soong sis­ters: Women
of influ­ence in 20th Cen­tu­ry Chi­na (The Soong sis­ters)
 
  http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-19910975
 
  http://downloads.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/radio4/china/china_20121012-1400a.mp3

 
  Li Bai and Du Fu:
Chi­na’s drunk­en super­star poets (Li Bai and Du Fu)
 
  http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-19884020
 
  http://downloads.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/radio4/china/china_20121011-1400b.mp3

 
  The Duke of Zhou: The
man who was Con­fu­cius’s hero (Duke Zhou)
 
  http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-19821144
 
  http://downloads.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/radio4/china/china_20121010-1400a.mp3

 
  Kublai Khan: Chi­na’s
favorite bar­bar­ian (Kublai Khan)
 
  http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-19850234
 
  http://downloads.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/radio4/china/china_20121009-1400a.mp3

 
  Sima Qian: Chi­na’s
Great His­to­ri­an (Sima Qian)
 
  http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-19835484
 
  http://downloads.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/radio4/china/china_20121009-1000c.mp3

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