Hello and welcome back, my fellow historians, checking out our unusual start time.

It is officially 10 p.m. on Saturday. We usually do these at three on Sunday, Eastern, that is. But we have a great reason for that.

It's a fun to do it at an unusual time, but it's not just randomly chosen to be fun. It's because

our guest is in China, and that's a long way away. The time difference is substantial. So for him,

it would have been 3 o'clock in the morning,

but we're not trying to get people to come at 3 o'clock in the morning. So welcome.

It's my fault. It's completely on me. How dare you live in China? But of course, that makes

you an excellent guest for this discussion today, not only because you live in China and have

a deep connection to it, because you are also the host of the History of China podcast, and that is

extremely relevant to our topic of Y-T today. So welcome to the show, Chris Stewart. Well, thank you

very much. Guilty as charged on all accounts. And I'm happy a year. Right on. So we're both in the Agora Podcast Network.

It's great to be in

that collection of excellent

podcasters and we've been in there for a while

a few years together there and it's been

a lot of fun. I've listened

to a lot of new shows that I wouldn't have found that way and

it's good stuff. Check it out.

We're in a collective group, but worthwhile I think. Yeah, yeah. So as I've said many times, it's likely true

for a lot of you listening, certainly not everyone. I know European history better than I know

other types of history, including Southeast Asian history. So we have an easier time catching

parallels and catching the

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