A journey through the 5000 years of history documented by one of the world's oldest continuous civil
With its push against Goguryeo rather catastrophically stalled out, the whole enterprise begins to u
Emperor Yang of Sui has ventured forth to the far northeastern border of China in an attempt to resc
The second emperor of the Sui Dynasty gets bad rap - his postmortem regnal name means "the Slothful"
Today we finish out out look into the reign of the Sui Dynasty’s founding emperor, Wen. We begin fir
Emperor Wen of Sui is potentially the most important monarch you've never heard of. For him, militar
So what does it all mean? Before stepping boldly into the Sui Dynasty, we take this episode to pan o
Northern Zhou seems to have plotted a course for ultimate victory in the contest between the Norther
In the Northeast of China, Northern Qi just can’t catch a break. First it was Emperor Wenxuan’s murd
Today’s episode takes us through the turmoil within northern China and beyond over the 550s. We begi
In the post-557 world, the three new major powers of China must confront the wide ranges of changes
This short episode covers the life of one of the great mathematicians, astronomers, and engineers of
“There are decades where nothing happens, and there are weeks when decades take place.”It’s an out a
The end of Emperor Wu’s 5-decade-long rule over the Liang Empire is jam-packed with action. Followin
Buddhism has taken Southern China by storm, but few more than its emperor, Wu of Liang. He’ll try to
Going back about 50 years to the beginning of the 6th century, we move South once more to visit the
Though Northern Wei has been a beacon of steadiness amid the ephemeral Southern Dynasties, its time
We continue our look at Northern Wei at the dawn of the 6th century. The imperial bookends will be X
While the South of China self-destructs time and again, the North is undergoing its own revolutionar
The successor state to Liu Song will start off strong, but it will soon hit the rocks of instability
The fates have not been kind to the Liu Song Dynasty. It keeps rolling the monarchy dice, and they k
