#220 - Ming 12: Fantastic Beasts and Where to Gift Them

The History of China

Chris Stewart

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🗓️ 13 July 2021

⏱️ 42 minutes

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The treasure Fleet goes on missions 2-4, resulting in increasingly strange, valuable, and even divine gifts being presented to Great Ming. Time Period Covered: 1407-1415 CE Major Historical Figures Ming: Yongle Emperor (Zhu Di) [r. 1402-1424] Admiral Zheng He [1371-1435] Commodore Yang Min Ma Huan, translator & chronicler [1380-1460] Kingdom of Malacca: King Parameswara [r. 1402-1414] Major Works Cited: Chan, Hok-lam. “The Yung-lo reign” in The Cambridge History of China, vol. 7: The Ming Dynasty, 1368-1644, Pt. I. Dreyer, Edward L. Zheng He: China and the Oceans in the Early Ming Dynasty, 1405-1433. Levathes, Louise. When China Ruled the Seas: The Treasure Fleet of the Dragon Throne, 1405-1433. Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth. “Kéramos” in Keramos and Other Poems: A Book of Sonnets, Part II. U.N. Museum. “Nanjing pagoda – Seven wonders of the medieval world.” www.unmuseum.org Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:34.8	Hello and welcome to the history of China.
0:47.8	Episode 220.
0:49.9	Fantastic beasts and where to gift them.
0:54.6	And yonder by non-king behold, the tower of porcelain, strange and old.
1:00.0	Uplifting to the astonished skies its ninefold painted balconies, with balustrade of twining
1:05.6	leaves and roofs of tile beneath his eaves, hang porcelain bells that all the times ring
1:11.4	with a soft melodious chime.
1:13.8	While the fabric is ablaze with various tints all fused in one, great mass of color like
1:18.8	a maze of flowers allumant by the sun.
1:24.4	Some caramus by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, 1856.
1:33.0	We begin today with a brief accounting of the second and most minor of the treasure-fleet
1:38.0	voyages.
1:39.6	Without even the personal command of Admiral Zheng He, busy as he was in duly honoring
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