#157 - S. Song 4: Peace at What Cost?

The History of China

Chris Stewart

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🗓️ 23 January 2019

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Emperor Gaozong really, *really* wants his dad's coffin. Qin Hui really, *really* wants to give the Jurchen whatever they ask for. The Jurchen really, *really* want the Mongol khan to stop tweaking their emperor's beard. Time Period Covered: 1135-1160 CE Major Works Cited: Allsen, Thomas. “Chapter 4: The rise of the Mongolian empire and Mongolian rule in north China” in Vol. 6, Alien Regimes and Border States. Franke, Herbert. “Chapter 3: The Chin Dynasty” in Vol. 6, Alien Regimes and Border States. Tao, Jing-Shen. “The Move to the South and the Reign of Kao-Tsung” in Vol. 5, the Sung Dynasty and Its Precursors. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:38.0	Episode 157
0:40.0	Peace at what cost. Hello and welcome back and happy 2019 to all of you out there in the world.
0:49.0	I'm back for my long trip to my hometown as well as a whole host of other things I won't get into.
0:55.5	We did have a great holiday full of skiing, presents, food and snow, and now I'm back in gray,
1:01.7	cold, rainy, uninsulated Shanghai.
1:05.0	Fortunately at this point I only have about 10 days before my next vacation, so I'm hanging on. In any case last time we concluded our two-part
1:17.8	biopic on the mighty general of Song Yueffae and his treacherous undoing at the hands of Chin Wei, the long-legged.
1:27.0	Today then, we're going to examine the larger events going on and around and throughout and even beyond the story of the general and the
1:36.2	Chancellor especially the process of the states of song and jeans efforts to
1:41.5	wind their conflict down and resolve it all the way with a peace treaty.
1:45.8	What would by this episode's end be signed, sealed, delivered, and then abided by for about 20 years, known as the Treaty of Shao-Shin.
1:57.1	It's hard to know exactly when the Jirchien leadership came to the conclusion that total
2:02.4	victory against the Song Chinese was out of their reach.
2:07.0	This is due to several factors.
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