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Ep. 140-1 | Tea's Ancient Beginnings
In this first episode, we'll explore tea's humble beginnings in the Ba 巴国 and Shu 蜀国 States in today's Sichuan province. We'll also look at the mythi…
11 years, 5 months ago
Ep. 139 | Sir Edmund Backhouse (Part 3)
In this episode, we will conclude our CHP overview of the life of Sir Edmund Backhouse, 2nd Baronet. In this 3rd part of the series, we'll look at th…
11 years, 9 months ago
Ep. 138 | Sir Edmund Backhouse (Part 2)
Fast on the heels of Part 1 of this CHP overview of the life of the Sinologist Sir Edmund Backhouse, we present Part 2 in this episode. We'll look at…
11 years, 9 months ago
Ep. 137 | Sir Edmund Backhouse (Part 1)
In this episode, we will begin a 3-part series covering the life of Sir Edmund Trelawny Backhouse, 2nd Baronet. He lived from 1873 to 1944, spending …
11 years, 9 months ago
Ep. 136 | Wong Chin Foo
I thought it wouldn't be a bad idea in 2021 to resurrect this old episode from mid-2014 that tells the story of Wong Chin Foo (王清福). His spirit is al…
11 years, 10 months ago
Ep. 135 | The Song Emperor Huizong (Part 4)
In this final installment of the history of the life and times of the emperor Huizong, we look at the series of events that followed the Jürchens' Se…
11 years, 11 months ago
Ep. 134 | The Song Emperor Huizong (Part 3)
We continue in this episode examining the second decade of Huizong's reign. The good times lasted about twenty years but all good things can't go on …
11 years, 11 months ago
Ep. 133 | The Song Emperor Huizong (Part 2)
This time in Part 2 of our series we look at Huizong as he attempts to assemble his team and deal with bitter factional strife that was rampant since…
12 years ago
Ep. 132 | The Song Emperor Huizong (Part 1)
We're going to begin a new series that will look at political, social, and cultural life in the late Northern Song. The second the last emperor Huizo…
12 years, 1 month ago
Ep. 131 | Morris Two-Gun Cohen (Part 2)
We're going to finish off the last 45 years of Morris Two-Gun Cohen's life in this extra-long episode. With Sun Yat-sen now gone, Morris Cohen worked…
12 years, 2 months ago