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About Lucas Tse
Historian based at All Souls College, University of Oxford.
NBN Episodes hosted by Lucas:
April 6, 2026
The China Question
"The contempt and naive idealization of China are two sides of the same coin. The latter cannot be an antidote to the former." So argues Ho-Fung Hung…
April 5, 2026
Light Year
And in the room we could hear the ocean waves, breaking against the history of ourselves. So concludes the first poem in Light Year (Nine Arches …
March 31, 2026
Everything You Wanted to Know about China*
What does Xi Jinping share with Mao Zedong? Why is Confucius still central to a communist state? What really happened in Tiananmen Square—and why is i…
March 28, 2026
Fight, Flight, Mimic
Time spent and words spent—what does each signal? Deceptive mimicry—the manipulation of individual or group identity—includes passing off as a differ…
March 27, 2026
Foretokens
'Unearthed in a clear-out, a picture calendar she’s kept– hoarding, I’ve learnt, is a mark of the emigrant –across continents and time.'So begins Sara…
March 17, 2026
Penalties of Empire
Who bore the burdens of empire? Christopher Munn's Penalties of Empire: Capital Trials in Colonial Hong Kong (Hong Kong UP, 2025) explores how judge…
March 8, 2026
The Idea of China
What counts as China, and who counts as Chinese? China became a capitalist superpower by investing in globalization. Now that it has established its …
March 7, 2026
Nepal's Dalits in Transition
What do political democracy and social hierarchy do to each other? For too long Nepal's Dalits have been marginalized, not just socially, economicall…
February 20, 2026
Man in a Hurry
In Man in a Hurry: Murray MacLehose and Colonial Autonomy in Hong Kong (Hong Kong UP, 2024), Ray Yep explores the latest available archival materials …
February 15, 2026
Asia after Europe
The balance of global power changed profoundly over the course of the twentieth century, above all with the economic and political rise of Asia. Asia …
January 23, 2026
The League of Nations
Laura Robson and Joe Maiolo challenge histories of the League of Nations that present it as a meaningful if flawed experiment in global governance in …
January 22, 2026
Liberating the United Nations
The United Nations (UN) has always loomed large in international conflicts, but today accepted wisdom declares that the organization has lost its way.…
January 10, 2026
The Once and Future World Order
Since the dawn of the twenty-first century, the West has been in crisis. Social unrest, political polarization, and the rise of other great powers—esp…
December 22, 2025
Christopher Hill
Christopher Hill was one of the leading historians of his generation. His work across more than 15 books and dozens of articles fundamentally rewrote …
December 18, 2025
An International Anomaly
It is often assumed that only sovereign states can join the United Nations. But this was not always the case. At the founding of the United Nations, a…