The First Unified China

Bro History

Politics, History, News, Society & Culture

4.1 • 939 Ratings

🗓️ 19 February 2021

⏱️ 84 minutes

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On today’s episode we discuss the first imperial dynasty of ancient China, the Qin Dynasty. It was founded by Shi Huangdi who operated according to the precepts of Legalism, a political philosophy that called for a strong central government and authoritarian state control. We explore how Shi Huangdi, or Emperor Qin, used Machiavellian principles to consolidate power. We also ask the question – how does legalist philosophy inspire the actions of Xi Jinping. Thomas’s Road to Recovery: https://gofund.me/48d706e6 Support on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/brohistory Episode #183 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	As a long time foreign correspondent, I've worked in lots of places, but nowhere is important
0:07.0	to the world as China. I'm Jane Perlaz, former Beijing Bureau Chief for the New York Times.
0:13.0	Join me on my new podcast, Face Off, US versus China,
0:18.0	where I'll take you behind the scenes in the tumultuous US-China relationship.
0:23.0	Find face-off wherever you get your podcasts. You're going to be. What's going on guys?
0:45.0	What's going on guys?
0:48.0	Welcome to another episode of Bro history.
0:50.0	It's Henry Zamoda and Danny Evedelgebar. What's up brother? How are you?
0:55.6	Chilling man as per usual. How about yourself? I'm doing pretty well. I actually just watched the
1:01.0	Brittany Spears documentary on Hulu. Oh did you? What'd you think? I forgot how
1:08.4	terrible the media was to her back in today.
1:13.0	Yeah man, Donald Trump beat your heart out.
1:14.8	Like she, they really like gave her shit.
1:17.9	I really forgot how bad it was.
1:20.0	Like watching those obnoxious paparazzis follow her and then have that lead to an
1:26.8	eventual mental breakdown where she shaved her head because back in a day when that was all
1:31.3	going down you know I was like 15 or so.
1:35.5	I was younger.
1:37.4	I was like, oh, look at her, she's crazy.
1:39.9	She's crazy, man, she shaved her head.
1:42.1	Right, I thought the same thing.
1:44.0	Yeah.
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