Hey everyone, welcome back. This is Laszlo Montgomery, now starting my 16th year, bringing you all these exciting episodes of the China History podcast.

So quite a few of you have reached out to me asking, what's up? I'm so regular for all these years, new episodes every couple of weeks.

And now, during the second half of 2025, so stingy with the new material.

Well, actually, in between trips to Cambodia, I've been cranking out a lot of new episodes

for a new series that's coming to you around Chinese New Year 2026.

That'll be February 17th.

Woods-A- Tien's birthday.

All of that new stuff has been up on Patreon and CHP Premium. If you're feeling any

FOMO, you can consider that nuclear option. This one I have for you today? I'll admit,

I completely forgot about it. It came out on Patreon like six months ago in June.

I just woke up, someone emailed me this morning,

and was wondering if I'm okay and if I'm still posting CHP episodes.

Now, aside from the glaucoma and macular degeneration I just found out about yesterday,

I'm doing great.

And this forgotten episode will serve as proof of life.

It's from six months ago, but as far as I've been able to tell, nothing new was surfaced

regarding this story, so it's still green.

Back in February, I featured author and master jade carver Andrew Shaw onto the CHP to talk about his book, Spoil, which looked at the history of looted treasures and the stories behind them.

This time I wanted to dig a little deeper into only one of the incidents that Andrew Shaw mentioned.

Graves and grave robbing, go hand in hand.

We're familiar with so many stories about these tombs being built and plundered,

and in some cases even the remains of former royals or aristocrats being desecrated.

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