History in Focus

14. Agency and History + Hong Kong and China Between the Tides

May 3, 2023

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Episode notes

Introduction

2min

The Relationship Between Culture, Agency, and History

3min

The Relationship Between Cultural Competence and Power

3min

The Problem With Agency

5min

The Role of Agency in the Evolution of Human Behavior

2min

Valentin Markov's Unable to Navigate the Empty Space of Shared Color

3min

The Importance of Pre-Yourself

2min

Oyster Men and Refugee Hong Kong and China Between the Tides, 1949 to 1997

2min

The Politics of the Borderlands

2min

10.

The Border Between Hong Kong and Shenzhen

2min

11.

The Role of Collective Labor in Oyster Production

3min

12.

The Story of the Oyster Men in China

2min

13.

The History of the Shajing Oyster Industry

4min

14.

The Importance of Oyster Farming in Shenzhen

3min

Anna Krylova examines the complicated role of agency in history. And Denise Ho discusses the multilayered interactions along the Hong Kong–China maritime border in the mid-twentieth century through the lens of oyster producing communities.

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