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#233 - Ming 23: General Zhu Shou's Ultimate Party Yacht River Cruise
#233 - Ming 23: General Zhu Shou's Ultimate Party Yacht River Cruise
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55 minutes
Released:
Apr 6, 2022
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There's trouble brewing in the south. A minor prince with delusions of grandeur gets a bit too big for his britches. Portuguese Pirates plunder peninsular ports before coming to call on Canton. This sounds like a job for the great General Zhu Shou, Heroic Defender of the Realm and Ultimate Party-Boat Enjoyer.Time Period Covered:~1514-1521 CEMajor Historical Figures:The Zhengde Emperor (Zhu Houzhao) [r. 1505-1521]The Prince of Ning (Zhu Chenhao) [1477-1520]Jiang BinQian Ning [d. 1520]Grand Secretary Fei HengSun Sui, Governor of Jiangxi [d. 1519]General Wang Yangming [1472-1529]General Zhu Shou, Heroic Defender of the Realm, Duke of Zhenguo [?? -??]Tomé Pires, Portuguese explorer and ambassador [c. 1465-1524? or 40?]Major Works Cited:Brook, Timothy. The Troubled Empire: China in the Yuan and Ming Dynasties.Geiss, James. “The Cheng-te reign, 1506-1521” in The Cambridge History of China, Vol. 7: The Ming Dynasty, 1368-1644, Part I.”Keevak, Michael. Becoming Yellow: A Short History of Racial Thinking.Pires, Tomé, Armando Cortesão & Francisco Rodrigues. The Suma oriental of Tome Pires; and account of the East, from the Red Sea to China, written in Malacca and India in 1512-1515; and, The book of Franciso Rodrigues: Pilot-Major of the armada that discovered Banda and the Moluccas: rutter of a voyage in the red sea, nautical rules, almanack, vol. 1. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.
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Apr 6, 2022
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