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Thank you. and then get in touch with Audible, because seriously, guys, what the hell? Hello and welcome to the History of Japan podcast, Episode 93, The Dragon and the Rising Sun, Part 3.

When we last left the story of the modern Sino-Japanese relationship, the father of modern China, Dr. Sun Yatsin, had just died.

In his wake, he left a modernizing but fragmented nation.

The man who followed him into power would have to rebuild a new China and he'd have to do it

while holding off an increasingly expansive Japan, and holding together a collection of

independent-minded warlords and ideological communists, a good many of whom

were just waiting for the first sign of weakness to turn on him.

The man who would be handed this unenviable job was born on October 31, 1887, in Jiangsu,

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