Ep. 95 | Yue Fei

The China History Podcast

Laszlo Montgomery

Places & Travel, Society & Culture, History

4.8 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 23 August 2012

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Summary

Like Guan Yu in the previous episode 081, Yue Fei of the Southern Song Dynasty was a heroic and legendary military man in Chinese history. He dedicated his life to resisting the aggression of the Jurchens of the Jin dynasty. The Jurchens had booted the Song dynasty out of northern China in 1127. Yue Fei dedicated his short life to win back those northern lands before falling victim to imperial court politics. And this helped to make him a legend. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Good evening everyone, Lazlo Montgomery here with our 95th episode of the China History
0:04.4	podcast. Glad you could all make it.
0:06.8	We finished off our three-part Chenghe series last week and now we're winding the clock back
0:12.4	another three centuries before the great Admiral in
0:15.0	15th century diplomatic extraordinary.
0:18.2	Last time we were in early 15th century China.
0:22.0	Now we're going to explore the early 12th century, the calm
0:26.7	before the storm that is going to turn the world upside down and cause a world
0:31.3	record of death and destruction that still might stand to this day.
0:35.2	If any of you haven't heard Dan Carlin's latest hardcore history program, I suggest you make sure
0:40.9	that one is downloaded. His Wrath of the Cons series is a fantastic
0:46.8	look as only the inimitable Dan Carlin knows how to do on the Mongols and
0:51.6	what they did in the 12th and 13th centuries.
0:54.5	No one brings history to life like Dan Carlin.
0:57.1	Hardcore history, and he also has a political show called Common Sense.
1:01.0	You might want to check that one out if you like all those political
1:05.2	YAC shows. In this episode I'm going to introduce another person who is right up there
1:10.3	on the pantheon of Chinese leaders, heroes, and artists. In episode 81, I introduced
1:16.7	the man who went on to become the God of War. This was Guanyu. Guanyu from the Three Kingdoms
1:22.3	Period. He, along with Lio Be and Jiangfei made the Peach Garden oath and became sworn brothers.
1:30.0	Well, today's story is sort of along the lines of Guanyu.
1:34.0	Guanyu died during the dying days of the eastern Han in 219 AD.
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