The Forbidden City With Dr. Jeremiah Jenne
The China History Podcast
Laszlo Montgomery
4.8 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 10 August 2022
⏱️ 66 minutes
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Summary
Few topics have been requested more than the Forbidden City, located in the center of the great city of Beijing. To help introduce this iconic palace complex, Laszlo invited longtime Beijing resident, Jeremiah Jenne of "Barbarians at the Gate Podcast" fame onto the CHP to discuss the history of the Forbidden City from its construction in the Ming Dynasty up to the present day.
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| 0:00.0 | What is surprising, is it your celebrity crush, knocking on your front door? |
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| 0:09.0 | Is it barbecuing and not burning the sausages? |
| 0:14.0 | Is it realising your cat has more friends than you? |
| 0:19.0 | Or is it finding hit animals like Goran Lagan, Cowboy, BeeBop and Tokyo Ghoul to stream free on ITVX? |
| 0:26.0 | You be the judge, ITVX, the UK's freshest streaming service. |
| 0:30.0 | Welcome back, my good-looking listeners. |
| 0:32.0 | Lasla Montgomery here. |
| 0:33.0 | Something special for you this time. |
| 0:35.0 | I am so thrilled and honored to have on my little China History Podcast program. |
| 0:41.0 | All the way from the former capital of the Qing, Ming and Yuan Dynasty, |
| 0:45.0 | the great city of Beijing, Dr. Jeremiah Jenny, who needs no introduction. |
| 0:50.0 | So I won't give one. |
| 0:52.0 | Laodai. |
| 0:53.0 | Welcome to the CHP. |
| 0:55.0 | Hey, well, thank you, Lasla. |
| 0:57.0 | Thank you for having me on. |
| 0:58.0 | Big, huge fan of the CHP for many years. |
| 1:02.0 | So one of my favourite walking around town podcasts, |
| 1:05.0 | it tends to fit that space very nicely between going to the subway, |
| 1:10.0 | going through multiple checks, proving that I'm alive, proving that I'm disease-free |
| 1:14.0 | and getting on the subway. |
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