In this interview I talked with Dr. Xu Guoqi. Dr. Xu is professor of history and founding director of the Institute of Transnational History of China at the University of Hong Kong. He has written many books including Asian and the Great War, Chinese and Americans, Strangers on the Western Front, China and the Great War, and Olympic Dreams. We discussed his book, The Idea of China: A Contested History, and the history of the relationship between the United States and China going back to the Founding of America.

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In this episode I talked with Frannie Block. Frannie is a reporter at The Free Press and has recently reported on Chinese persecution of Christian pastors in her piece, China vs. God: Ezra Jin and Beijing’s War on Christianity. We talked about this report, why China has a history of religious suppression, how China has emerged as a global superpower, and what President Donald Trump has done to end persecution around the world (we also discussed other things). I hope you enjoy!

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In this episode I talked with Dr. Louis Markos from Houston Christian University. Dr. Markos is the author of many books including On the Shoulder of Hobbits: The Road to Virtue with Tolkien and Lewis, From Aristotle to Christ: How Aristotelian Thought Clarified the Christian Faith, and Restoring Beauty: The Good, the True, and the Beautiful in the Writings of C.S. Lewis.

In our conversation we discussed C.S. Lewis’s Ransom Trilogy. We talked about the medieval cosmology that must be understood before one reads the Ransom Trilogy, why Lewis thought language was central to human living, and the necessity of violence in the Christian faith. I hope you enjoy!

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