#155 - S. Song: Yue Fei, Pt. 1-The Flying Fury

The History of China

Chris Stewart

History

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🗓️ 8 December 2018

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Summary

In this first of a two-part look into the life and legend of this epic Chinese hero, we chronicle Yue Fei's early life and education, his induction into the military to serve his nation with utmost loyalty, his meteoric rise through the ranks, and his stalwart resolve in facing the greatest crisis his country his known in centuries, all while garnering a cult-like following of soldiers, and the panicked attention of the imperial court. Time Period Covered: 1103-1137 CE Major Works Cited: Foster, Robert W. The Human Condition in Premodern China. Jenne, Jeremiah. “The Execution of Yue Fei: 875 Years of Patriotic Myth” from radiichina.com Li, Xiaobi. China at War. Lorge, Peter. War, Politics and Society in Early Modern China, 900-1795. Mote, Fredrick W. “Ch. 13: The Southern Song and Chinese Survival” in Imperial China 900-1800. Tao, Jing-shen. “The Move to the South and the Reign of Kao-tsung” in The Cambridge History of China, Vol. 05: The Sung Dynasty and Its Precursors, 907-1279. Wills, Jr., John E. E. Mountain of Fame: Portraits in Chinese History. Zhou, Zuoren, trans. Tim Cronen. “A View of the Hero Yue Fei and the Traitor Qin Hui” in The China Heritage Quarterly No. 28, December 2011. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:37.0	Hello and welcome to the history of China.
0:44.0	Episode 155, The Flying Fury.
0:53.5	My hair bristles with wrath within my helmet.
0:57.0	Leaning on the railing as the gusting rain ceases, I gaze upward, looking to heaven, and
1:02.2	let loose a passionate roar.
1:04.8	Thirty years accomplishments like dust and dirt.
1:08.2	I traveled 8,000 Lee with the clouds and the moon.
1:11.8	Never waiting, never resting, has whitened this young head.
1:16.1	My vain despair is complete.
1:19.4	The shame of the Jingkong period has not yet been wiped away.
1:23.2	When will this subject's anger be erased?
1:26.8	Let us charge through Hullon Pass to trample them with our war chariots, where we shall feast on barbarian flesh when hungry, and with light conversation,
1:36.7	drink the blood of the Shongnu. Let us begin anew to recover our ancestral lands,
1:42.4	then pay tribute to the Emperor once again in our courts of old.
1:48.1	From the poem River of Red 1134.
1:53.8	In the center of the city of Hangzhou, located on the northern bank of the famous West
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