China - The Opium Wars to Today’s Censored Society

Prof. Isabella Jackson of Trinity College Dublin discusses the evolution of China from the Opium Wars to the rise of communism, nationalism in exile in Taiwan, the one-child policy, Chinese censorship - and how this may have indirectly led to the Covid-19 pandemic. 

She also discusses her research into child slavery and attitudes to childhood in China, and her personal experience with Chinese Censorship.