History

Dial Beijing – A Year in Review

The year 2009 is soon coming to an end. How does Thomas Rippe, our Beijing correspondent, feel about this year's events? In this interview we asked him about the highlights of the year and the hopes and expectations for 2010.

30th December 2009 - Geni Raitisoja - Dial Beijing

The Birth Of Red China

October 1st this year marked the 60th anniversary of the founding of the People's Republic of China. In Tian'anmen Square six decades ago, Chairman Mao Zedong declared the establishment of the People's Republic of China.

6th November 2009 - Janne Suokas - History

Dining with Confucius

Famous Chinese thinker and philosopher Confucius lived in Shandong in northeastern China more than 2000 years ago. In addition to his famous teachings, which have had a great bearing on the development of the Chinese culture, he also left a different, tastier kind of legacy.

14th October 2009 - Stina Björkell - Culture

The dragon awakes: China's fifth generation of film directors, Part 1

After the end of the Cultural Revolution, a new generation of enthusiastic and conscientious film directors emerged on the national scene. The members of this group of directors all graduated from the Beijing Film Academy in 1982 and belonged to the fifth class to graduate from the school, hence the term "fifth generation."

30th September 2009 - Anniina Koivula - Culture

The Empress Dowager Cixi in power

Empress Dowager Cixi played an important part in China's political history. Contrary to Qing imperial tradition, which forbade women and Princes from engaging in politics, she became the only Empress of the Qing dynasty to rule “behind the curtains.”

29th September 2009 - Individuals behind China

Sun Yat-sen: The father of modern China

At the beginning of the 20th century, Chinese reformists debated whether it was necessary to overthrow the imperial government to bring about a new order of things in the nation. One of the key figures of the movement to bring down the Qing Dynasty was Sun Yat-sen, whom many consider to be the father of modern China.

25th September 2009 - Individuals behind China

Red propaganda! Chinese revolutionary cinema

The communist revolution and the ensuing founding of the People's Republic of China in 1949 launched what would undoubtedly go down in history books as the most radical era of Chinese film-making.

9th September 2009 - Anniina Koivula - Culture

Lloyd Lofthouse on China

Through his own writing work and marriage to Shanghai author Anchee Min, American writer Lloyd Lofthouse has probably gained more insight into China's development than most Chinese will in their lifetime.

28th July 2009 - Stina Björkell - China perspective

Jade through the ages: James Lin from the Fitzwilliam Museum

James Lin, Assistant Keeper of Applied Arts at the Fitzwilliam Museum in Cambridge and main organizer of an ongoing exhibition of Chinese jades at the museum, told Radio86 about the showcase featuring priceless artifacts from the Neolithic Period up to the modern times, as well as about the significance of jade in Chinese history.

20th May 2009 - Stina Björkell - Culture

Sun Yaoting, China's last eunuch

Sun Yaoting’s life was full of near-misses, wrong timings, and almost-made-it moments. His story is the subject of the book "The Last Eunuch of China: The Life of Sun Yaoting."

30th March 2009 - Geni Raitisoja - History

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