#79 - Sui 3: Yang's Imperial Tour

The History of China

Chris Stewart

History

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🗓️ 28 October 2015

⏱️ 33 minutes

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The second emperor of the Sui Dynasty gets bad rap - his postmortem regnal name means "the Slothful" and he's commonly lumped together with the rest of the "bad-last emperors" as being hedonistic, wasteful, and just generally monstrous. But is this really the case, or was Emperor Yang the victim of a historical hatchet job?Today we look at the upbringing and early life of Prince Yang Guang, his unlikely rise to power, and then the early period of his reign over China as Emperor Yang, and how he picked up where his father had left off in trying to reignite the glory of the ancient Han.Time Period Covered:605-609 CEImportant Figures:SuiYang Jian (Emperor Wen of Sui) [d. 605]Empress Dugu [d. 602]Yang Guang (Emperor Yang of Sui) [r. 605-618]Empress XiaoGeneral Yang "Axe Man" SuIntelligence Chief Pei JuJapanPrince Shotoku [Sovereign of Nihon]Gökturk KhannateQimin Khan [alt. Yami Khan]Goguryeo Kingdom (North Korea and Manchuria)King YeongyangWorks CitedSima, Guang. Zizhi Tongjian (Reflections of Governance) (1084 CE)Vout, Caroline. The Hills of Rome: Signature of an Eternal CityWei, Zheng, et al. Sui Shu (The Book of Sui). (636 CE)Wright, Arthur F., Chaffee and Twitchett (ed.) The Cambridge History of China, Vol. 3 (1979) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:26.0	You must be signed into the same Google account on both your phone and Chromebook. Hello and welcome to the history of China. Episode 79, Yong's Imperial Tour.
0:50.8	So a funny thing happened to me on my way to the recording studio this week.
0:55.4	Right after, and I mean right after, I got done recording last week's episode 78, the wire
1:00.7	to my microphone broke. Snapped right in two into and it's of a design that wouldn't you know it has proved rather difficult to get shipped with any speed here to Shanghai
1:10.2	And especially ironic things since I know for a fact that almost all of them are made here.
1:15.0	So my replacement mic cord is somewhere on a boat in the Pacific right now.
1:20.0	But that means that in the meantime I'm stuck with decidedly inferior recording equipment.
1:25.2	So I'm hoping that quality of content will out trump the relative lack of quality of recording
1:30.3	tech this week and the next. But while I was waiting and waiting, I just kept
1:35.2	writing and writing and writing. And wouldn't you know it? By the time I looked down in my word
1:39.3	count, it had ballooned to about 9,500 words for a single episode.
1:44.4	And even my longest don't typically run more than 5,500.
1:48.0	I was treading dangerously close to Dan Carlin-length,
1:50.8	but without nearly the narrative Gusto
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