The Master of Demon Gorge: A Chinese History Podcast

Regarding the Yuan Dynasty astronomer and the South China Sea.Support the show

Regarding one of the most famous, if also most elusive, of ancient Chinese physicians.Support the show

The rebellion in Datong in 1649 presented the greatest challenge against the Qing during its period of consolidation, and in ended in a massacre.Support the show

On one of the most neglected but also mysterious texts of Warring States philosophy.Support the show

The most important Chinese art collector of the 17th century.Support the show

The Zizhi Revolt in 314 BC upended Warring States politics and led to the rise to power of King Zhao of Yan.Support the show

The Warring States thinker who gave us one of the most influential if mystical theories about dynastic changes.Support the show

That republic within the Russian Federation that used to be a part of China.Support the show

One of the great but largely forgotten military leaders in Chinese history.Support the show

From the 16 Points of 1670 to the exegesis of 1724: one of the most widely read documents during the Qing Dynasty.Support the show

On the late-Han Dynasty text on customs and its author.Support the show

Regarding one of the most significant personalities of the early-Tang Dynasty and his fictionalization.Support the show

Regarding the remarkable 6th century leader of the Li people.Support the show

Three mysteries in 1644-45.Support the show

About the man who actually brought down the Ming Dynasty.Support the show

What is the origin of the term "East Turkestan"? The complicated history of Xinjiang in the 1930s and '40s.Support the show

Another of the "Four Great Ministers of the Late-Qing."Support the show

One of the most important mandarins of the late-Qing was also one of the most controversial figures in Chinese history.Support the show

Regarding the unique career of Feng Dao of the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms.Support the show

One of the most important missionaries in the history of Christianity in China.Support the show

The second-longest reigning emperor of the Ming Dynasty was an out-too-devout follower of religious Daoism.Support the show

From 1765 to 1769, Qing China invaded Burma four times...Support the show

Regarding the Han Dynasty "Biographies of Exemplary Women," Queen Jiang, Zhongli Chun, Cai Wenji, and Xie Daoyun.Support the show

One of the leading figures of the reform of 1898.Support the show

Regarding the author of "The Dream of the Red Chamber," the greatest novel ever written in the Chinese language.Support the show

I think the Ming Dynasty novel contains in it a history of the Chinese Communist Party written centuries before the Party existed.Support the show

The tale of the Ming Dynasty general who switched sides and helped to bring it down and the woman whose legendary beautiful supposedly made him do it.Support the show

Regarding one of the greatest calligraphers who ever lived, and one of the worst prime ministers in Chinese historySupport the show

A most significant military family during the Northern Song Dynasty.Support the show

About a classical Chinese expression and the two men behind it.Support the show

Regarding the late-Ming mandarin and his ethical choices.Support the show

August 1, 1927: a date that lives in PRC history.Support the show

Mt. Lu or Lushan, the object of so much classical Chinese poetry, the site of so much modern Chinese history.Support the show

The Han Dynasty inventor of the Taichu Calendar.Support the show

Tales from the Altai Mountains.Support the show

A lesser known figure who saved the Southern Song Dynasty in 1161.Support the show

The reason why so few Buddhist temples from before the mid-9th century survive in China.Support the show

The Ming Dynasty prince who worked out the modern musical scale.Support the show

The Chinese version of the Cinderella story and the 9th century collection in which it appears.Support the show

The legend of the Eight Immortals, which gradually arose starting during the Tang Dynasty, particularly associated with the town of Penglai in Shandong.Support the show

The remarkable stateswoman of Ming Dynasty Guizhou.Support the show

In 1927, when Nanjing and Wuhan were both capitals of the ROC...Support the show

The triple university that continued the educational mission through WWII.Support the show

On the North and South Dynasties philosopher who argued against the immortality of the soul.Support the show

The late-Song prime minister with a terrible reputation.Support the show

Zhengde or Wuzong of Ming, a most perplexing ruler.Support the show

The Ming mandarin who helped, 400 years later, to start the Cultural Revolution.Support the show

The most successful military commander of the mid-to-late-Ming Dynasty.Support the show

The major Song Dynasty philosopher who began to formulate Neo-Confucianism.Support the show

The Daoist hermit who supposedly lived to 118 years old and profoundly influenced Confucian philosophy.Support the show