The History of China

A journey through the 5000 years of history documented by one of the world's oldest continuous civil

Episodes

Total: 323

The state of Cao Wei comes under the pretty-much-permanent regency of the Sima Family and launches a

The war between the Three Kingdoms has ground to a bloody stalemate. Hoping to seize the initiative,

We reach the end of the road for the Han Dynasty... well, sort of... it's complicated. In any case,

The warlord Cao Cao has crushed any rivals to his power in the North, and now turns South to reunify

In the Southeast, the young but ambitious Sun Ce has splintered off to form his own power bloc, but

In the aftermath of the tyrant Dong Zhou's death, the two commanders of the former anti-Dong coaliti

Corruption and plutocracy run rampant throughout Han, leading to a religious uprising called the Yel

Coming on the heels of Han's last Golden Age, emperors will begin dropping like flies, opening the E

It is a Golden Age for the Eastern Han. After decades of tumult, famine, and civil war, the Chinese

In the power vacuum left by the defeated Xin Dynasty's collapse, no fewer than six claimants to the

All hell breaks loose for Wang Mang's Xin Dynasty when the Yellow River flooding its banks in 11 CE

Confucian Wang Mang overthrows Han and sets up his Xin Dynasty to renew the Golden Age of Zhou throu

The Han Dynasty has slipped into a malaise that seems difficult to pull out of. Emperor Yuan is an i

Following the historically long reign of Emperor Wu, the Han Empire struggles to find a replacement,

In this last of three parts of Wu of Han, with the back of the once-mighty Xiongnu Empire broken, Em

Tensions between the Han and Xiongnu Empires boil over into full-scale war after decades of humiliat

The young Emperor Wu of Han struggles to step out of the shadow of his grandmother and seize power i

The reigns of Han Emperors Wen and Jing took enormous strides to stabilize the dynasty both within a

With Han's first Emperor, Gaozu, dead, his wife the first Empress of China Lü Zhi plans on making a

The Han Dynasty is established by Liu Bang, who crowns himself it's first Emperor Gaozu. But though