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Ep. 14 | China's Mythical Beginnings
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46 minutes
Released:
Sep 8, 2010
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In this episode we commence our Chinese imperial dynasty overview. It begins today with the Xia Dynasty 夏朝代. According to historiographer Sima Qian, this was the first dynasty of China. It’s origins and its demise and everything in between have all come from sources written many centuries later. For this reason and for reasons of continue reading >>
Released:
Sep 8, 2010
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CHP-003 The Four Great Inventions: Today we look at the Four Great Inventions, the 四大发明, that Lord Francis Bacon hailed as having done more than anything else to transform completely the modern world and mark it off from antiquity and the Middle Ages. Today we examine the four gre by The China History Podcast