#143 - N. Song 10: Inertia, Inaction, Insurrection

The History of China

Chris Stewart

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🗓️ 15 June 2018

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Emperor Renzong of Song continues to twiddle his thumbs. Confucianism get a much-needed adrenaline shot to the arm via Daoism. Zhuang superpatriot Nong Zhigao declares simultaneous war on China and Vietnam in the name of his people's liberation. Time Period Covered: 1043-1054 CE Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:45.0	Hello and welcome to the history of China.
0:55.0	Episode 143, Inertia, inaction, insurrection.
1:04.1	I am back from my week-long trip to Chengdu Sichuan, camping in the mountains, feeding
1:09.6	Pandas, and being stuck in airports for nine hours with 40 middle schoolers.
1:15.1	It wasn't all a good trip, but wow, talk about exhausting.
1:20.8	In any case, we pick up where we left off last time,
1:23.8	circuit 1043, with the Song Empire having fought to a rather
1:27.7	pitling conclusion, a border war with the Tangut state of Western Shah
1:32.1	that amounted to what might be described
1:34.8	were one feeling particularly generous as a technical victory that is probably
1:40.0	best described as Pyrrhic for the Chinese state.
1:42.4	Today then we'll be going through best described as Pyrrhic for the Chinese state.
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