Hello everybody and welcome back to Rev Left Radio. As some of you may know by now, I have recently on the best terms imaginable stepped away from guerrilla history as the third co-host just because I have a lot of things going on in my own life that necessitate

that I you know focus on those stuff, school, family, etc.

And it's just really hard to balance all the projects that I have.

But before I did leave or right after I left, I was able to at least come on as a guest co-host for this absolutely amazing

series that Henry and I did with Ken Hammond on the last 200 some years of Chinese history

systematically working from the Taiping rebellion

and the Boxer rebellion up through modern day China

even looking into the future.

This is a four episode series that will be coming out first and

foremost on guerrilla history so I highly encourage everybody listening to this who is at all

interested in this teaser or this history to go subscribe to Grilla History

make sure you keep an eye out for that series. I will also after Grilla

History releases each episode post them on Rev Left. It's so good that I want to make sure as many ears as possible

listen to these episodes. It is, and I don't say this with any hyperbole, the best

sort of four to five hour breakdown of modern Chinese history that I have

ever ever heard. So that is singing high praises for Ken and his scholarship and his entire life dedicated to

understanding and doing political education work around Chinese

history and present-day Chinese society. So here's a little teaser from I believe

episode two or three in which we dive into the Great Leap Forward and the

Cultural Revolution and so much more and this is just a little chunk from our episode about that focused on the

cultural revolution. I really enjoyed this part of the of the conversation

but again it's acting as a teaser for the

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