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For the History of Southeast Asia Podcast, the latest episode covers another round in the ongoing conflict between Myanmar and Thailand, or as they were called before the twentieth century, Burma and Siam. At the height of the fighting, the Burmese utterly destroyed Ayutthaya, the capital of Siam. But this wasn’t the end of Siam; the Siamese kings move first to Thonburi, then to Bangkok, and the kingdom recovered with amazing speed.
https://www.blubrry.com/hoseasia/23252612/episode-20-eighteenth-century-burma-siam/
The next episode is up now! I took an extra day to get the recording and editing finished. The end result is the longest episode this podcast has produced so far, So I think you will find it was worth the wait. For the first time in seven months, we will look at the Philippines. Here you will hear how Spain lost its tight grip on the islands, and the development of Southeast Asia’s first modern nationalist movement. The narrative will cover events in the 1700s and most of the 1800s, and end right before the United States got involved in the Philippines, the topic of the next episode. And for the first time, you will hear my wife make a contribution!
https://www.blubrry.com/hoseasia/26658584/episode-28-philippine-nationalism/
Happy New Year! To begin 2018, the podcast will cover the course of World War II in Southeast Asia. For this episode, we will start by looking at the events in the
early twentieth century that motivated Japan to conquer most of East Asia and the western Pacific, and we will finish with the event that brought the United States
into the war, the attack on Pearl Harbor.
https://www.blubrry.com/hoseasia/30118223/episode-36-prelude-to-the-pacific-war/
Episode 48 of the podcast is finally up! Originally I was planning to have it finished by July 16, but several factors came together to make it late, from a week-long
trip out of town to a fierce storm that has knocked out power in my home city. Still, I did not rush the recording, because as they say, haste makes waste. I have learned that if I get it right the first time, I won’t have to redo it later.
Anyway, with this episode the podcast returns to Southeast Asia during World War II. This time we look at what happened in Burma, modern-day Myanmar, from the middle of 1942 until early 1944.
https://www.blubrry.com/hoseasia/35739771/the-forgotten-war-in-burma-part-1/
Here is the first episode for 2019. New years mean new beginnings, and because the previous episode finished what this podcast had to say about World War II, we will be making a new beginning here. This episode is an introduction to the events that happened between 1945 and 1990, a time called both the Cold War era and the Age of Nationalism.
https://www.blubrry.com/hoseasia/40983692/episode-59-nationalism-triumphant/
Today’s episode covers Vietnam during the early years of the Second Indochina War, from 1957 to the end of 1961. We will see communist guerrillas and their partners stage attacks, with guns and bombs, mostly against South Vietnamese officials, but sometimes even Americans become targets. At the end of 1960, they will be organized to form the Viet Cong, a major player in the conflict from now on. We will also see the response of the South Vietnamese president, Ngo Dinh Diem; he enjoyed a string of successes in the previous episode, but begins to falter now. Finally, the United States sends military advisors to go with the military equipment being sent to South Vietnam. In that way, the Americans show they are determined to stay until communism is defeated.
https://www.blubrry.com/hoseasia/47964584/episode-72-the-second-indochina-war-part-2/
After a two-episode break, the podcast is going back to the narrative about the Second Indochina War in Laos, this time covering events from 1964 to 1968, with special emphasis on the battles for Nam Bac Valley and Lima Site 85.
https://blubrry.com/hoseasia/52170766/episode-78-the-second-indochina-war-part-6/
A new month has begun, and you know what that means — it’s time for a new podcast episode! This episode covers events in the Second Indochina War, also called the Vietnam War, in 1969. In the United States there is a new president, Richard M. Nixon, and he starts the process of removing the Americans from the war, while on the streets of American cities, antiwar protests reach their peak. And over in North Vietnam, we say goodbye to Ho Chi Minh, who has been an important character in the
narrative since Episode 35.
https://blubrry.com/hoseasia/59822233/episode-89-the-second-indochina-war-part-16/
Today’s episode begins a series of episodes on the recent history of Southeast Asia. We will start by looking at Indonesia from 1950 to 1967, when Sukarno was the country’s first president.
https://blubrry.com/hoseasia/67551454/episode-97-indonesia-under-sukarno/
It has been five weeks since I gave you an episode, so thank you for your patience! This time we look at the Philippines from 1981 to 1992, the end of the Marcos presidency, and the presidency of Corazon Aquino. And since I told you previously that my wife is from the Philippines, this episode finishes with the story of how we met. Listen and enjoy!
https://blubrry.com/hoseasia/77520563/episode-110-people-power-in-the-philippines/
If you listen to my podcast, here is a Christmas present from me! This episode covers the turbulent recent years of Myanmar’s history, from 2008 to 2121. The next episode will come out in 2022, so Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!
https://blubrry.com/hoseasia/83403105/episode-118-which-way-is-myanmar-going/
Happy Groundhog Day, if you are in the United States! But seriously, after nearly three months of researching, recording, editing, and fighting off the challenges that kept me from working on the podcast, Episode 125 is now available! Today we take a close look at Sulawesi, the largest Indonesian island between Borneo and New Guinea. To compensate for the long time you waited, this is the longest episode I have made so far, at one hour and 23 minutes. So grab some refreshment (food or a drink), get comfortable, listen and enjoy!
https://blubrry.com/hoseasia/93592501/episode-125-sulawesi-and-the-way-of-the-ancestors/
At last, Episode 135 of the podcast is ready for your listening pleasure. This episode is longer than most, and here we continue our coverage of the island of Timor, looking at its history in the first forty years of the twentieth century.
https://blubrry.com/hoseasia/135713245/episode-135-the-divided-history-of-timor-part-4/