{"podcast":{"title":"Barbarians at the Gate","slug":"barbarians-at-the-gate-434733","podcast_index_feed_id":434733,"rss_url":"https://feeds.blubrry.com/feeds/barbarians.xml","website_url":"http://granitestudio.org","image_url":"https://assets.blubrry.com/coverart/orig/359922-172016.jpg","author":"Barbarians at the Gate","episode_count":110,"summary":"A semi-serious deep dive into Chinese history and culture broadcast from Beijing and hosted by Jeremiah Jenne and David Moser.","last_synced_at":"2026-06-19T00:19:24.204604+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/barbarians-at-the-gate-434733"},"episode":{"title":"Barbarians Remix: The Year of the Boxers with historian Jeffrey Wasserstrom","slug":"barbarians-remix-the-year-of-the-boxers-with-historian-jeffrey-wasserstrom","published_at":"2025-07-29T15:30:07+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/barbarians-at-the-gate-434733/barbarians-remix-the-year-of-the-boxers-with-historian-jeffrey-wasserstrom","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/barbarians-at-the-gate-434733","url":"https://blubrry.com/barbarians/147378056/barbarians-remix-the-year-of-the-boxers-with-historian-jeffrey-wasserstrom/","audio_url":"https://media.blubrry.com/barbarians/content.blubrry.com/barbarians/BATG-2025-07-29-098.mp3","summary":"Jeremiah and David are joined by Jeffrey Wasserstrom, historian of modern China and a longtime interpreter of the country’s shifting place in the world. Originally recorded in 2020, this conversation revisits the Boxer War of 1900—not through the usual lens of siege and rescue, but by examining what followed: the punitive occupation, the fractured international memory, and the long shadow cast by a global media frenzy. Wasserstrom’s reading reframes the Boxers not as an isolated burst of anti-foreign violence, but as part of a cycle of uprisings and reprisals that shaped modern China’s encounter with the West. He discusses why the term “Boxer Rebellion” obscures more than it reveals, and why “Year of the Boxers” may be a better way to understand the crisis—and its aftershocks. The episode also explores deeper patterns in Chinese history, including the 60-year cyclical mindset that links 1900 to 1960 and, by some accounts, to 2020. It’s a conversation about repetition, media distortion, and the uneasy symmetry between violence and remembrance.","meta_description":"Jeremiah and David are joined by Jeffrey Wasserstrom, historian of modern China and a longtime interpreter of the country’s shifting place in the world. O…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":1350,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/barbarians-at-the-gate-434733/episodes/barbarians-remix-the-year-of-the-boxers-with-historian-jeffrey-wasserstrom/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/barbarians-at-the-gate-434733/barbarians-remix-the-year-of-the-boxers-with-historian-jeffrey-wasserstrom.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}