Tea, Drugs, and Jesus Posts

Listeners interested in a visual representation of the progress of the fighting in the Chinese Civil War during its final phase after World War II — which we discuss in the first portion of Episode 208 ("Cash My Check") of the "Tea, Drugs, and Jesus…

Listeners interested in learning more about the 1944–1945 Allied offensive in Burma advocated by General Joseph Stillwell — a point of contention between Stilwell and General Claire Chennault which we discuss in our "Tea, Drugs, and Jesus" series in…

Listeners interested in a visual representation of the progress of the fighting in the China-Burma-India Theater during World War II — the subject of much of our discussion in three episodes of the "Tea, Drugs, and Jesus" series, which considers the…

Marshall recommends an article produced by the Center for the Study of Intelligence at the Central Intelligence Agency about America's detection and analysis of the Sino-Soviet split, which we discuss in Episode 210. The article is "Calling the Sino…

The United States of Amnesia posts its long-format podcast episodes on all major platforms, including our YouTube channel. On YouTube, we also have begun to post YouTube shorts, each sharing a minute or two from one of our episodes, with supporting …

Many people may wonder about the location of various cities referred to in our series "Tea, Drugs, and Jesus" on the United Sates and China.  Where is Canton or Shanghai or Nanking?  Please check out the link to this map to get a better sense of the…

Few families in the history of China have exercised such wide-ranging influence as the Soong dynasty in the 20th century. The three famous Soong sisters married well.  According to one saying, one loved money (Ai-Ling), one loved power (Mei-Ling), a…

MARSHALL's SOURCES: Hyatt, Irwin. Our Ordered Lives Confess: Three Nineteenth-Century American Missionaries in East Shantung. 2014. A spirited case study of American missionaries operating in Northeast China and the challenges they faced. Essentia…

In our Tea, Drugs, and Jesus series on the persistent American misunderstanding of China, we discuss the First Opium War of 1839–1842 and briefly mention the Second Opium War of 1856–1860 (Episode 202: Conflict Follows Trade). The History Matters ch…

This gallery of photos, maps, and other images add to our Tea, Drugs, and Jesus audio series about how the United States has always misunderstood China. We expand the gallery as the series continues – and sometimes after it has concluded – and add l…

Our new series, "Tea, Drugs, and Jesus," has premiered! Ben Franklin got China wrong, and America still does today! Marshall again leads our discussion in this new series, looking at how the United States keeps misunderstanding China — in no small p…