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Hello and welcome to the history of China.

Episode 216.2

Interview with the Wonders of the World, Part 2, The Forbidden City.

Hey all, we are approaching the end of May 2021, and me and the family are

busily packing up our stuff and getting ready to move out for the first time in all about seven or eight years.

We're going to be going all the way to the building next door.

That's right, big move.

It's so convenient that it's almost inconvenient,

since it's almost impossible to justify to myself hiring actual movers for this.

Therefore, we're just using good old-fashioned muscle power.

As that's making a lot of long overdue decisions about what comes with us and what just gets junked.

It'll feel good, I'm sure, in the end to have lightened up those piles of useless stuff that just tends to accrue over time.

But that's neither pure nor there, really.

Something that's certainly coming with us all is the podcast, and so let's get right back into that.

Today we're back one more time to deliver straight into your ears,

the second part of Caroline and my very fun conversation all about the once-and-future capital of the Ming and Beyond.

Beijing, especially that city within a city, the Imperial Purple Palace,

with 8,888 rooms, the Forbidden City.

I hope you enjoy, and now on with the show.

I'm going for the ring, I went to Beijing, and came back with the bling.

Lil Wayne, 2009.

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