Stories from ancient China, and whatever else comes to mind.
Continuing with the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms: the story of Li Siyuan, emperor of the Latter T
The story of General Hao Bocun.Support the show
Li Keyong and Li Cunxu, father and son, were responsible for building the second of the Five Dynasti
The story of Zhu Wen, the man who formally ended the Tang Dynasty and began the period in Chinese hi
About the Song Dynasty official, scholar, and philosopher Zhou Dunyi.Support the show
Yan Jiagan is the forgotten president of the Republic of China or Taiwan. He served between 1975 and
"The man from Qi worries about the sky"
The story of the Ming Dynasty secret police led by eunuchs, the most infamous eunuch among them, and
Regarding Gu Yanwu, the 17th century intellectual who has recently been the subject of controversy i
The remarkable Dujiangyan irrigation system in Sichuan was constructed in the 250s B.C. but remains
Regarding Zizhi Tongjian, or "General Mirror on Good Governance," and the man who wrote it
Taiping Guangji or "Extensive Records of the Taiping Era" is an anthology of stories compi
In 1615, the Tokugawa Shogunate made a rule that all Japanese emperors must study "Policy Diges
The Ming Dynasty novel "Journey to the West&q
The story of the somewhat mysterious Tocharian people of Kuche in today's Xinjiang, confusingly
The story of the "Door Gods" and how a pair of Tang Dynasty generals came to serve in that
The tale of another short (not to mention poor) man who achieved greatness. Chunyu Kun was a famed &
A fascinating minority group in the former USSR, chiefly Kyrgyzstan and Kazakhstan, is the people kn
The Confucian philosopher Zengzi and some of his i
Even as I want to finish telling you the story of Wu Zixu, the fact is that his life so intersected
