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Kodansha History of China, Season 3: The Qin-Han Empire
The Legacy of the First Emperor
Completed · 38 episodes
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Audio in Chinese
0. Is the Story of Peach Blossom Spring True? 1. A Local Official Encounters the First Emperor 2. Lü Buwei's Plan, from King Zhaoxiang of Qin to Ying Zheng 3. The Road Toward Unification 4. August Sovereign: The Birth of the Title “Emperor” 5. An Eternal Empire and Immortal Men: The First Emperor's Tours and Fengshan Sacrifices 6. Qin Shi Huang's Wars of Expansion and Imperial Infrastructure 7. The Death of the First Emperor: His Final Tour 8. Qin Shi Huang's Underground Palace 9. The Realm After the First Emperor: Chen Sheng, Wu Guang, and Qin Er Shi 10. The Fall of Qin and the Beginning of the Chu-Han Contention 11. The Chu-Han War and the Death of Xiang Yu 12. Liu Bang Becomes Emperor and Builds a Centralized Western Han State 13. “My Might Rules All Within the Seas, and I Return Home” | Law and Diplomacy Under Emperor Gaozu 14. China's First Woman to Rule in Her Own Right | Empress Lü, the King of Changsha, and the King of Nanyue 15. How Could an Ordinary Person Gain Noble Rank? | Legal Reform and Grants of Rank Under Emperor Wen 16. The Reigns of Wen and Jing in the Underground World: Wine, Meat, and Terracotta Figures 17. How Senior Was the Grand Historian? | Emperor Wu and Sima Qian 18. Natural and Human Disasters in Sima Qian's Writing 19. Immortality Cults, the Calendar, and Criminal Trials Under Emperor Wu 20. Foreign Policy Under Emperor Wu I: Han and the Xiongnu 21. Foreign Policy Under Emperor Wu II: From Yelang's Arrogance to the Heavenly Horses 22. How Much Were Han Officials Paid? | Economy and Development Under Emperor Wu 23. Scholarship in Emperor Wu's Age—and the End of His Reign 24. What Did the Han Central Government Look Like? | From Young Emperor to Lesser Treasury 25. Women of the Han | Zhao Feiyan, Zhao Hede, Wang Zhaojun, and Han Cosmetics 26. The Upright Official Who Was Called “Father” | History in Excavated Documents 27. The Idealistic Wang Mang | Rise and Fall of the Xin Regime 28. Why Did Ancient People Imagine Two Histories of the Eastern Han? 29. The Life of Liu Xiu, Emperor Guangwu 30. Stable Government and Turbulent Diplomacy in the Eastern Han 31. Why Was Son of Heaven a Noble Rank? | Eastern Han Culture 32. Disaster, Disease, and Population: The Beginning of a Turbulent Century 33. What Language and Mathematics Did Eastern Han People Study? 34. Eastern Han Diplomacy: Chinese and Barbarians, the Qiang, and Delicate Roman Glass 35. The Eastern Han in Disorder: Short-Lived Emperors, Consort Clans, Eunuchs, and Partisan Prohibitions 36. What Made a Great Clan? Local Society, Villages, and the Estate Economy 37. Finale: What Did Four Centuries of Qin and Han Leave Behind?