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Fellow Agora Podcast, When Diplomacy

fails by Zach Twamley, is soon going to be turning five years old.

His is an excellent journey across time showing us moment by moment those key

periods when the time for talk has come and gone. But here's the weird thing. There's been this

strange gigantic gift box just sitting on Zach's desk here at Agora HQ.

And the note only says, do not open until May 18th. I wonder what might be inside.

Find out what's in the box. on May 18th, when Zach finally celebrates five years of diplomatic

failure. That's when diplomacy fails, part of the Agora Podcast Network.

And now on with the show.

Hello and welcome to the history of China.

Episode one 23 in the rearview.

Before saying a final farewell to the late Great Tong Dynasty and stepping fully into the tumultuous but relatively brief five dynasties in 10 kingdoms period of the mid 10th century and then into the Song Dynasty beyond that. It has been a long time since we

had the opportunity to really pull back and take stock of what all has happened in the last

289 years since the victory of the Lee Clan over the Yangs of the Sui dynasty.

By my count, the last real wide-scale look-back episode was released only a little less than a year ago,

and which you can find as episode 105. It dealt with the tongue

dynasty up to the end of Empress Woosrein in 764. Now in writing today's

episode I toyed with the idea of having it pick up from there and simply running through

the back half of the tongue. But then I figured, eh, where's the fun in that? Moreover, it's been about a year and

I certainly don't expect us all to remember all of the great moments from the first half of the dynasty.

So today we'll be looking at the whole thing.

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