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This week, I'm going to recommend Waste Tide by Chen Chofan, translated by Ken Lyo.

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and I especially like non-Western science fiction.

There's a lot of great sci-fi coming out of China these days,

and this is one of the most interesting, about a post-garbage crisis Earth, for lack of a better word,

and the people who have to live in the ruins of today's civilization.

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Thank you. Hello and welcome to the History of Japan podcast, episode 302, Stand Up for Your Rights, Part 2.

Last week, we talked about one peasant rebellion in the twilight years of the Tokugawa era.

This week, it's time to talk about another and hopefully to get some sense of what your average non-samurai was concerned with during this

epochal moment in Japanese history. Our setting this time is Aizu domain, now the westernmost

chunk of Fukushima prefecture in northern Honshu, just to the west of Shindatsu, our setting last

week.

Aizu is actually one of the more important domains in the Tokugawa era,

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