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The History of China

#100 - Special: Di Yi Bai!

The History of China

Chris Stewart

History

4.61.2K Ratings

🗓️ 9 June 2016

⏱️ 85 minutes

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Summary

Title Meaning: “Hundredth!” It’s a Q&A between you listeners and myself on topics far and wide! They range from yet further exploration of Empress Wu, to the nature of Chinese alcohol, my favorite Chinese movies, Chinese classes and slavery within the Empire and even today, China’s relations with Southeast Asia and why it seems to be a particularly difficult place to conquer across time, the end of the Ming Dynasty, the surprisingly contentious history of silk, and finally a question likely to land me in hot water: a question on how China might change in the century to come (bring it on, Fifty Cent Party!) Enjoy! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

You're listening to an Airwave Media Podcast.

0:05.0

This episode is brought to you by Pepsi Max.

0:09.0

Christmas is great, but there's loads of ways to make it better

0:13.0

like sneaking some chili into the gravy for some extra oms

0:17.0

or building a playlist that will even get your none up on the table.

0:21.0

Or just cracking open an ice cold Pepsi Max. the Hey everyone. Welcome to The Behemoth that is episode 100. Before we launch in, let me just give a quick

0:37.6

shout out to my fellow Agora podcast members, one and all. They all rock and you should listen to all of them.

0:44.4

All right, I hope you're settled in and have a good long commute ahead of you because here we go. Hello and welcome to the history of China.

0:57.0

Episode 100, D.E. B.Bai.

1:07.5

We did it. We made it to the triple digits.

1:10.8

Well, I have to say, I never really expected to get this far, much less for you to accompany

1:18.2

me this far. But I'm sure glad to have each and every one of you along for the journey as we boldly go where no one has gone before

1:26.3

No, no, that's not right. Well, we're no podcast is

1:30.8

Wait, no, well, where this show has never gone in any rate, and that's good enough for me.

1:38.9

So in order to celebrate this truly momentous occasion, as promised, we're going to spend, well all of this episode

1:45.0

discussing the many great questions you guys, the listeners, have been sending in.

1:50.0

Before we get quite there, however, I'd like to take a moment to specifically shout out and say a huge thank you to everyone who continues to support the show through Patreon, that anyone thinks this show is worth any amount of money

2:05.0

when I'm just giving it away like some schmuck

2:08.0

is such a tremendous ego boost, you have no idea.

2:12.0

So I'd like to say a big thanks to a few of our show's newest patrons, which

2:15.8

are Alex G, Paul L, and Nicholas S. Thanks to all three of you very, very much.

2:24.0

And then, and this is the last side note, I promise, an enormous spectacular thank you on behalf of

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