#131 - 5D10K 8: The Southeast

The History of China

Chris Stewart

History

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🗓️ 22 October 2017

⏱️ 24 minutes

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We sweep over 4 of the southern kingdoms along the southeastern coast. WuYüe: which remains rich and prosperous owing to its favorable trade and geographic positions at the mouth of the Yangtze. Wu: which starts off strong only to be subsumed from within, giving way to Southern Tang. Min: whose coastal location is fatally undermined by it own geographic atomization, unto civil war, breakup, and destruction. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:35.0	Hello and welcome to the history of China.
0:48.0	Episode 131, the Southeast Coast,
0:51.0	Wuyay Wu, Southern Tong, Min, and In.
0:56.7	As we approach the end of the Five Dynasies and Ten Kingdoms period, as promised, we're first
1:01.1	going to be taking a little time to get acquainted with those kingdoms of the Southlands
1:05.2	that we'd only touched on peripherally in the course of the main narrative.
1:09.4	Though none of the Ten Kingdoms ever held enough power or gravitas to seriously think to challenge the hegemony of the Northern dynasties,
1:17.0	much less assert their own claim to Emperium.
1:19.5	They nevertheless played a vital role in maintaining much of the traditional culture, values, and mores that had
1:25.1	been so thoroughly trampled by the decades of warfare across the Northern Plains.
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