Viren Murthy on Promise and Limitations of Transnational History

Episode 02 -Sam Timinsky interviews Viren Murthy, associate professor of History at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. A specialist in philosophy and politics of modern East Asia, Murthy studies how intellectuals dealt with transformations of the modern world, Buddhists and Marxists alike. From this intellectual history perspective, Murthy gives his answer to our question “What is transnational history.”