A journey through the 5000 years of history documented by one of the world's oldest continuous civil
First a brief lookback on the crazy, nutso year that was 2022, as our intrepid host deals with an un
Being the most powerful person in the empire must be nothing but the good life, right? Well... not s
Protests erupt across Chinese cities in perhaps the largest demonstration of public outcry in more t
At 29, the weak and ineffectual Longqing Emperor take the Dragon Throne in 1567. But it won't be lon
Great Ming has a pirate problem on its hands. Unable to effectively suppress it militarily, the offi
A man of science and his subject conduct one final experiment in an attempt to stave off death itsel
As I am once again locked in at home, things are getting rather touchy on a bridge in Beijing, as we
Not all ghosts are scary! Some just want to be loved... some just want to write poems...1:10 - Twent
The Cremation of Sam McGeeBy: Robert W. Service (1907)There are strange things done in the Midnight
Someone has to be there to switch the projectors at the exact moment that one reel ends and the next
We're rascals and scoundrels, we're villains and knaves.We're devils and black sheep, we're really b
A brief history of Mid-Autumn Festival, and the tale of Hou Yi the Archer & the Ten Suns, and Ch
The Jiajing Emperor rounds out the back-half of his interminably long reign by hiding away in his pe
Let the state be small and the people few:So that the people…fearing death, will be reluctant to mov
The Jianwen Emperor plays shell-games with his dad's spirit tablet, decides Confucius has had it too
ca. 1470-1480 CEUnder the tutelage of his queen Mandukhai, Dayan Khan grows from helpless boy to lea
The widow-queen of the Mongols, Mandukhai, seizes the reins of her own fate, entreating the spirits
In the chaos that grips the steppes in the mid 15th century, anarchy reins. Though there are though
Aziz, Ashaya, Sean, and myself have a ball discussing all the things GRRM took - and didn't - from C
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