#222 - Ming 13: Trouble In Paradise

The History of China

Chris Stewart

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🗓️ 21 August 2021

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Zheng He's Treasure Fleet finally arrives on the African coast, and the Yongle Emperor celebrates the apex of his reign with the grand opening of Beijing and the Forbidden City. But dark clouds continue to build, but in the emperor's aged, troubled mind, and literally on the horizon... a storm is coming... Time Period Covered: 1416-1424 CE Major Historical Figures: The Yongle Emperor (Zhu Di) [r. 1402-1424] The Noble Consort Zhaoxian, née Wang [d. ca. 1420] Grand Admiral Zheng He [1371-1435] Mirza Sharukh, Sultan of the Timurid Dynasty [r. 1405-1447] 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. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:44.9	Hello and welcome to the history of China.
0:51.6	Episode 22. Trouble in Paradise.
0:54.8	A Radiance Shimmers on Dark Green Mountains, a raid to face the sun.
1:06.2	Standing tall in the blue clouds, they nearly reach the North Star.
1:10.3	Covering a vast distance, they link the Great Wall and East Ocean.
1:14.5	Their roads penetrate the remotest lands to bring foreign emissaries.
1:18.8	Heaven created this deep past to fortify the Imperial capital.
1:22.4	The Empire is unified, with standardized measurements and script.
1:26.0	We might well make a rubbing from a cliff inscription to send to the Emperor.
1:30.6	A poem in praise of the Yongla Emperor and the virtues of Beijing as the new Imperial capital,
1:34.9	by Wang Fu, circa 1416.
1:39.4	When last we left Admiral Zheng Ha, he'd plied the waves of the southern seas
1:43.0	all the way to the east coastline of Africa, and it brought back to his Emperor
1:46.8	gifts most delightful and suspicious, including a giraffe.
1:50.8	The year 1416 would therefore stand as a sort of high watermark in both the reign of Yongla himself
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