#115 - Tang 27: The Third Disaster of Wu

The History of China

Chris Stewart

History

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🗓️ 8 January 2017

⏱️ 34 minutes

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The new Emperor Wuzong will have a lot on his plate right from the get-go. Foreign threats and domestic squabbles will frame his early reign, but it's his own fanatical devotion to Daoism and antipathy to Buddhism that will define his reign. Period Covered: 840-846 CE Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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1:20.5	Episode 115, the third disaster of Wu. Last time we began and ended, the reign of the Tang Dynasty's 18th Emperor, Wunzong, and his close but no cigar plot to take the
1:31.1	palace eunuchs down a peg or two.
1:34.2	When that hadn't panned out, Wunzong had then died in the year 840 at the age of only 30 or 31
1:40.1	as a result of an old illness coming back. Wunzong, you may recall from the end of last episode,
1:46.0	did have one natural son and heir.
1:49.0	But the young prince had been arrested and then mysteriously killed
1:52.0	back in 1838, leaving the Imperial Court in turmoil
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