#67 - S&N 11 All The Wei Down

The History of China

Chris Stewart

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🗓️ 17 June 2015

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Summary

Though Northern Wei has been a beacon of steadiness amid the ephemeral Southern Dynasties, its time has come to an end. Wracked by ineptitude and betrayal, weighed down by jealous Empress dowagers, ambitious generals, and infant emperors, and with a society split between traditional customs and the new normal, it will devolve into civil war, mass purges, and – ultimately – a permanent split between East and West.Time Period Covered:515-535 CEMajor Characters:Grand/Empress/Dowager Hu (r. 515 - 528)Emperor Xiaoming (510 - 528)Prince Yuan Cha (d. 525)Erzhu Rong (492 - 530)Emperor Xiaowu’s Daughter (528 - ?)Yuan Zhao [Emperor Youzhu] (526 – 528)Emperor Xiaozhuang (r. 528 – 530)Gao Huan (496 - 547)Emperor Xiaowu (510 - 535) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:54.0	Episode 67, all the way down.
1:04.0	Last time we finished off with Empress Dowager Hu of Northern Way, ascending from lowly consort slated for death,
1:10.0	to the highest office in the land as regent to her five-year-old son,
1:14.2	Yuan Shoo, who had just begun his reign as Emperor Shao Ming in the year 515.
1:20.0	She had managed to do so with the help and protection of an entire cabal of court
1:26.1	officials dead set on releasing Northern Way from the grip of the then Empress Dowager
1:30.5	Gao and her uncle the Prime Prime Minister Gao Jao.
1:35.3	And together the coalition had succeeded in pushing the pair off the throne and into their
1:39.5	graves.
1:41.6	This time we're going to follow the course of her regencies, and the decisions of hers that, along with trends far outside of her control, would ultimately lead to the destruction of Northern Way entirely.
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