Eric Fish

China Chronicles

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China Chronicles is an independent podcast that uses dramatic, deeply researched storytelling and immersive audio to tell little-known stories from China’s past and present – both from within the Mainland and from the Chinese diaspora. From suppressed disasters and dark tragedies to moments of brilliance, resilience and achievement, each episode unpacks a chapter in the complicated China story that still reverberates today, and does so in a way that’s objective, informative and entertaining.

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Eric Fish

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The ‘Iron Dam’ that became China’s deadliest secret 27.07.2025 55:58

Fifty years ago, the Banqiao Dam in Henan collapsed, taking as many as 230,000 lives with it. This testament to Mao-era engineering hubris and political fanaticism was the worst structural failure and deadliest industrial disaster in human history, yet to this day, few inside or outside of China know anything about it. For show notes, transcript and photos of the Banqiao disaster, go to www.chinac...