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The China History Podcast

Ep. 305 | The History of Guangzhou (Part 3)

The China History Podcast

Laszlo Montgomery

History, Society & Culture

4.81.2K Ratings

🗓️ 24 July 2022

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Summary

The history continues of China's great and historic "Window to the World", the city of Guangzhou. This time we pick up in the Yuan dynasty, where everything culturally, politically, and commercially picks up the pace going back to the Tang. Quanzhou in Fujian province outpaces Guangzhou as far as China's most important trade port. But that will change once we get the Ming and Qing dynasties. In this episode, the Europeans will finally, after more than 2,000 years, get their chance to get to know China face to face and up close. Needless to say, it didn't go too well. 

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0:27.0

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0:57.1

Falling hard for the second time. First, it was in the 1120s with Emperor Huizong in the north,

1:03.3

when the capital was at Kaifeng, and for the second time, the Song Dynasty reestablished in the

1:09.4

southern half of China, suffered another bitter ending, and the bitterest part of the ending happened

1:15.5

not too far from Guangzhou, southwest of the city. After the Mongol conquest in 1277, Kublai Khan

1:24.3

hit China divided up into provinces, and Guangzhou, and all of Guangdong, became part of the new Jiangxi

1:31.4

province, Jiangxi Xingxiang, with the capital at Nanchang. The Mongol general Soudu had occupied

1:38.7

the city of Guangzhou in 1278, a year before the final Song Emperor met his watery end at the cliffs

1:46.1

of Yaman. The role of Guangzhou is a southern gateway to China, and as a port of trade was kept alive

1:53.7

during the Yuan Dynasty. Both Kublai Khan, his children, and grandchildren, they all had the same

2:00.6

lust for the treasures, and luxuries traded at all the maritime silk road ports and beyond.

2:07.4

In this way, they weren't much different from previous emperors and royal courts. Government

2:12.2

offices were established in Guangzhou and other places to regulate and manage trade and shipbuilding.

2:19.4

And throughout the Yuan Dynasty, Guangzhou played its traditional role as a trade entrepoh.

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