EPISODE · Jun 3, 2015 · 31 MIN
#66 - S&N 10: Cold Case File
from The History of China Podcast · host Chris Stewart
Please check out Stephen Guerra's The History of the Papacy Podcast at http://www.atozhistorypage.com We continue our look at Northern Wei at the dawn of the 6th century. The imperial bookends will be Xiaowen - the chief proponent of sinicization among the Tuoba Xianbei - and his son Xuanwu, a placeholder in just about every sense of the term. The real drama will unfold around two of Xuanwu's wives... and whether or not one killed the other in a murder mystery 1500 years old. Period Covered: 499-515 CE Major Figures: Yuan Hong [Emperor Xiaowen] (r. 467-499) Yuan Ke [Emperor Xuanwu] (r. 499-515) Empress Yu (~488-507) Prince Yuan Chang (506-506) Consort/Empress Gao (d. 518) Gao Zhong, Prime Minister (d. 515) Empress Dowager Hu (d. 528) Crowned Prince Yuan Xu [Emperor Xiaoming] (r. 515-528)
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