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#77 - Sui 1: Internal Affairs
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Length:
46 minutes
Released:
Oct 8, 2015
Format:
Podcast episode
Description
Emperor Wen of Sui is potentially the most important monarch you've never heard of. For him, militarily reuniting China wasn't his legacy - it was his prelude. Both pre- and post-reunification, we explore the internal facets of his truly impressive reign today: his origins, personality, outlook, confidantes, the existential problems he inherited from the Period of Disunion, and the novel, world-changing solutions he'd craft to ensure China's reunification would be factual, rather than just rhetorical.
Time Period Covered:
581-600 CE
Major Figures
Yang Jing (Emperor Wen of Sui)[r. 581-604]
Empress Dugu Qieluo
Gao Jiang
Yang Su
Su Wei
Li Delin
Arthur F. Wright, Chaffee and Twitchett (ed.) The Cambridge History of China, Vol. 3 (1979) For information regarding your data privacy, visit acast.com/privacy
Time Period Covered:
581-600 CE
Major Figures
Yang Jing (Emperor Wen of Sui)[r. 581-604]
Empress Dugu Qieluo
Gao Jiang
Yang Su
Su Wei
Li Delin
Arthur F. Wright, Chaffee and Twitchett (ed.) The Cambridge History of China, Vol. 3 (1979) For information regarding your data privacy, visit acast.com/privacy
Released:
Oct 8, 2015
Format:
Podcast episode
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