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Hello and welcome to your Dead To Me, a history podcast for everyone.

For people who don't like history, people who do like history and people who forgot to

learn in the at school.

My name is Greg Jenner, I am a public historian, author and broadcaster and I'm the chief nerd

on the BBC comedy show Horrible Histories.

You may have also heard my other podcast, Home School History, although that one's mostly

for the kids.

On this podcast we take the YIN of History and the Yang of Comedy and we aim for Cosmic

Harmony but we'll settle for Chuckles.

Today we are sailing up the Yangtze River or rather the Yangtze River and along the

Grand Canal are ship-laden with wares for the great markets of Tang Dynasty China and

to help me poke around the stalls I'm joined by two very special guests.

In History Corner she's an assistant professor of history at Mulemberg College in Pennsylvania

and is an expert and foreign relations in pre-modern China.

She's also the co-author of a new companion to the global early middle ages.

It's professor Tinnika Darshalihe.

Hello Tinnika, thank you for joining us and I'm so sorry for mangling your lovely name.

Thanks for having me and don't worry about the name, I'm quite used to the students

doing the same.

In Comedy Corner she's a self-described comedian, writer and cake eater, aren't we all.

You may have seen her hilarious stand up or heard her comedy podcast, Rice to Meet You

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