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Podcast: The Cosmopolitan
Episode: The Creation of Modern China
Description: Podcast: Dan Snow's History Hit (LS 76 · TOP 0.01% what is this?)Episode: The Creation of Modern ChinaPub date: 2024-09-29Get Podcast Transcript →powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarizationOn the 1st of October 1949, a huge crowd gathered in Tiananmen Square. In the shadow of Beijing's imperial Forbidden City, they listened as Mao Zedong, Chairman of the Chinese Communist Party, proclaimed the birth of the People's Republic of China. The trials and tribulations of the Chinese people were over, he told them, and their liberation from the shackles of...