#173 - S. Song 15: Swan Song

The History of China

Chris Stewart

History

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🗓️ 7 September 2019

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Hangzhou is surrounded by the Mongol Yuan army, and is soon to fall. When the child-emperor and the Empress Dowager are taken captive, it will fall to the last two princes of House Zhao to flee to the islands and archipelagos of the Deep South, if they’re to stand any chance at all of keeping the flame of the Song from guttering out forever. Time Period Covered: 1275-1279 CE Southern Song: Grand Empress Dowager Xie Empress Dowager Chuan Emperor Zhao Xian (Gong of Song) [r.1274-1276, d. 1323] Emperor Zhao Shi (Duanzong) [r. 1276-1278] Emperor Zhao Bing [r. 1278-1279] Chancellor Chen Yizhong Mongol Yuan Dynasty: Khubilai, Mongol Khan & Emperor of Yuan General Bayan, Commander of the Southern Campaign General Atzuhan Admiral Dong Wenping Lt. Menkhutai Lt. Fan Wenhu Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:35.2	Hello and welcome to the history of China. China. Episode 173, Swan Song. We last left the Southern Song.
0:53.3	We last left the Southern Song perched upon the very precipice of destruction.
0:57.6	Its defence is breached, its Navy outmatched, its armies crumbling, its officials fleeing in the dead of night, and its capital of Hong Jo, feeling
1:06.7	directly for the very first time the tug of the Mongol cord around the collective necks. This time then, we'll pull the lever and swing open the trap door waiting below.
1:18.0	The execution is about to commence.
1:20.0	The song will sing its last today.
1:25.0	We pick up with the rains of spring giving way to the stifling heat and humidity of the southern summer along the southern banks of the Yinser River.
1:33.5	This changeover of the seasons, though uncomfortable in itself, did manage to buy, at least
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