The unlikely tale of Chinese slave, soldier and tycoon Jiang Zonghan

The China History Podcast

Laszlo Montgomery

Places & Travel, Society & Culture, History

4.8 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 11 August 2024

⏱️ 20 minutes

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Summary

Here's a reading of an article recently published in the South China Morning Post, written by travel writer David Leffman. On his most recent trip to Yunnan to work on his upcoming book on the 1875 Margary Affair, David had a chance encounter with a taxi driver who was a sixth-generation descendent of Jiang Zonghan, someone closely related to the little-known but rather consequential event that took place in February 1875 along the Yunnan-Myanmar border. Here's a link to the article. https://www.scmp.com/magazines/post-magazine/long-reads/article/3272812/who-built-first-bridge-over-yangtze-river-unlikely-tale-chinese-slave-soldier-and-tycoon-jiang Website: https://www.davidleffman.com/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:30.0	Greetings all China history podcast listeners all over the world.
0:34.3	Lhasa Montgomery here with another episodeio especial, and for once it isn't an interview.
0:39.8	I'm going to read you a piece that came out August 3rd in this year of the dragon in the South China
0:45.6	Morning Post, my former employer back in the early 90s. I was their food critic for a couple
0:51.1	years. Anyway, my good friend in the UK, travel writer David
0:55.9	Leffman wrote an article about his recent trip to Yunnan province walking
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