Mao’s Revolution – What Remains?

These talks at UCBerkley presented online are great (second place goes to the University of Chicago). From the description:\

China expert and Harvard political scientist Roderick MacFarquhar joins UC Berkeley’s Graduate School of Journalism Dean Orville Schell for a lecture and discussion of the lasting impact of Chairman Mao’s Communist Revolution in China

Qing Culturalism and Manchu Identity

A really fascinating lecture on Qing culturalism and Manchu identity by Frederic Wakeman in a series of lectures of China at the turn of the 20th century, entitled “Transitions from Culture to Nation.”

Mao’s Bloody Revolution

via popperslist documentaries

From the description:

Revealed Series: Mao’s Bloody Revolution – Section 1 of 4 A documentary offering a portrait of Mao Tse-Tung, one of the 20th century’s most controversial leaders. Author and former BBC correspondent Philip Short looks at Mao’s life from his childhood and rise to power to his death in 1976. The programme examines the legacy of Mao’s rule of China and features exclusive interviews with some of Mao’s inner circle, as well as dramatic unseen footage from the period of the ‘cultural revolution‘.

Intelligence Squared – A Booming China Spells Trouble

This past year was the first year for this Oxford-style debate series on NPR, Intelligence Squared, and I thought that every debate was thoughtful and provoking. This debate on the rise of China is my favorite from an American viewpoint, split up into an annoying 11 parts of youtube.