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Hey everyone.

By now, you've likely noticed, though maybe not yet,

the change we've just implemented to all of the episodes.

You'll now see them listed in their sequential episode number,

followed by either a dynasty name or a shorthand for the era,

followed by a number within that quote-unquote chapter, and then finally

the episode's name.

Sound complicated?

Well, I hope not, but let me explain anyways. I've been kicking around in my head for a while

now the idea that with now more than 50 episodes the history of China had under

the previous system been rather difficult to penetrate for someone just

starting out and was also kind of difficult to even navigate if you say wanted to go back to a specific

era and believe me I'm speaking from, having been on multiple occasions reduced to

Word Search trial and error just to find a specific episode.

So after giving it a lot of thought, I opted to take yet another page out of Mike Duncan's

playbook, and more officially chapterize THOCs episodes, both retroactively and going forward.

I hope this will, as we move ever deeper into the depths of China's past, be more

of a help than a point of confusion. But I would of course love to hear from you all about your

thoughts on the change.

Speaking of confusion, there will be, at least for the time being, a bit of a mix-up for past episodes.

Going forward, I plan to implement this new system directly, but the audio intro of all

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