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Anyways, please enjoy. Hello and welcome to the history of China.

Episode 126, lineage of the Liao.

Hey everyone, welcome back from my month and change hiatus from the show, and from China altogether

for that matter.

Did you miss me?

I sure missed you.

I used my summer vacation this year to visit my family in hometown in the States for the first time in some two years and it was a great time.

But now I'm back in the oppressive, humid, miserable August heat of Shanghai summer, and so that means that we're back to our regularly scheduled program.

So ready, set, let's go.

Up to this point, we've been focused primarily on the stories of the people of the Yellow River Valley and south of that.

This I would say is pretty justifiable since the title of the show is after all the history of China.

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