Department of History
China, cont’d Lecture by Prof. Harvey Goldberg on modern China. Covers the second phase of the Chinese Civil War (1945-49) through Communist victory on the mainland and Chiang Kai-shek’s flight to Taiwan. Click below for text transcriptions and audio from the HGC’s official YouTube channel. NOTE: Reflecting Goldberg’s own pronunciation of Chinese terms and the …
China, cont’d Lecture by Prof. Harvey Goldberg on modern China. Covers the first phase of the Chinese Civil War (1927-37) and the Second Sino-Japanese War (1937-45), as well as American support for Chiang Kai-shek’s Kuomintang against the Communists led by Mao Zedong. Click below for text transcriptions and audio from the HGC’s official YouTube channel. …
China, cont’d Lecture by Prof. Harvey Goldberg on modern China. Covers the end of the Warlord Era (1916-28) and the opening of the Nanjing Decade under Chiang Kai-shek (1927-37), as well as Mao Zedong’s early leadership of the Chinese Communist Party and its relationship with the Soviet Union. Click below for text transcriptions and audio …
China, cont’d Lecture by Prof. Harvey Goldberg on modern China. Covers the early years of the Chinese Republic, from the May Fourth Movement following World War I through Communist collaboration with Sun Yat-sen’s Kuomintang. Click below for text transcriptions and audio from the HGC’s official YouTube channel. NOTE: Reflecting Goldberg’s own pronunciation of Chinese terms …
China, cont’d Lecture by Prof. Harvey Goldberg on modern China. Covers the First Sino-Japanese War (1894-95) and the Boxer Rebellion (1899-1901) under the Dowager Empress Cixi through the collapse of the Qing dynasty in the Xinhai Revolution of 1911. Click below for text transcriptions and audio from the HGC’s official YouTube channel. NOTE: Reflecting Goldberg’s …
China, cont’d Lecture by Prof. Harvey Goldberg on modern China. Covers the unequal treaties, the Opium Wars, and Western territorial concessions in nineteenth-century China through the Taiping Rebellion (1850-64) and attempts at reform under the Tongzhi Restoration (1860-74). Click below for text transcriptions and audio from the HGC’s official YouTube channel. NOTE: Reflecting Goldberg’s own …
China Lecture by Prof. Harvey Goldberg on modern China. Covers traditional Chinese society under the Qing dynasty and the origins of Western economic imperialism in the mid-nineteenth century. Click below for text transcriptions and audio from the HGC’s official YouTube channel. NOTE: Reflecting Goldberg’s own pronunciation of Chinese terms and the texts he would have …
Chile Guest lecture hosted by Prof. Harvey Goldberg on American intervention in the overthrow of Chile’s Allende government and the rise of the authoritarian Pinochet regime. Delivered by UW–Madison graduate student Adam Schesch. Click below for text transcriptions and audio from the HGC’s official YouTube channel.
Eastern Europe, cont’d Lecture by Prof. Harvey Goldberg on Soviet policy in the Eastern Bloc. Covers the defeat of popular uprisings like the Hungarian Revolution of 1956 and the Prague Spring of 1968 at the hands of the Red Army. Click below for text transcriptions and audio from the HGC’s official YouTube channel.
Eastern Europe, cont’d Lecture by Prof. Harvey Goldberg on Soviet policy in the Eastern Bloc. Covers the emergence of new leaders in the Warsaw Pact and popular movements for reform following Khrushchev’s attempts at de-Stalinization. Click below for text transcriptions and audio from the HGC’s official YouTube channel.