Letters and Politics

An Update on People’s Park & A History of Taiwan and China

Part I. People’s Park 

Guest: Harvey Smith is a public historian, educator, and part of the People’s Park Historic District Advocacy Group. He is also the author of Berkeley and the New Deal.

Part II. A History of Taiwan and China

Guest: Valerie Hansen is the Stanley Woodward Professor of History at Yale University, where she teaches Chinese and world history.  She is the author of The Silk Road: A New History and The Open Empire, her latest is The Year 1000: When Explorers Connected the World, and Globalization Began.