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#79 - Sui 3: Yang's Imperial Tour
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Length:
33 minutes
Released:
Oct 28, 2015
Format:
Podcast episode
Description
The second emperor of the Sui Dynasty gets bad rap - his postmortem regnal name means "the Slothful" and he's commonly lumped together with the rest of the "bad-last emperors" as being hedonistic, wasteful, and just generally monstrous. But is this really the case, or was Emperor Yang the victim of a historical hatchet job?
Today we look at the upbringing and early life of Prince Yang Guang, his unlikely rise to power, and then the early period of his reign over China as Emperor Yang, and how he picked up where his father had left off in trying to reignite the glory of the ancient Han.
Time Period Covered:
605-609 CE
Important Figures:
Sui
Yang Jian (Emperor Wen of Sui) [d. 605]
Empress Dugu [d. 602]
Yang Guang (Emperor Yang of Sui) [r. 605-618]
Empress Xiao
General Yang "Axe Man" Su
Intelligence Chief Pei Ju
Japan
Prince Shotoku [Sovereign of Nihon]
Gökturk Khannate
Qimin Khan [alt. Yami Khan]
Goguryeo Kingdom (North Korea and Manchuria)
King Yeongyang
Works Cited
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Today we look at the upbringing and early life of Prince Yang Guang, his unlikely rise to power, and then the early period of his reign over China as Emperor Yang, and how he picked up where his father had left off in trying to reignite the glory of the ancient Han.
Time Period Covered:
605-609 CE
Important Figures:
Sui
Yang Jian (Emperor Wen of Sui) [d. 605]
Empress Dugu [d. 602]
Yang Guang (Emperor Yang of Sui) [r. 605-618]
Empress Xiao
General Yang "Axe Man" Su
Intelligence Chief Pei Ju
Japan
Prince Shotoku [Sovereign of Nihon]
Gökturk Khannate
Qimin Khan [alt. Yami Khan]
Goguryeo Kingdom (North Korea and Manchuria)
King Yeongyang
Works Cited
Sima... For information regarding your data privacy, visit acast.com/privacy
Released:
Oct 28, 2015
Format:
Podcast episode
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