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Kodansha History of China, Season 8: Liao, Western Xia, Jin, and Yuan
The Galloping Conquerors of the Steppe
Completed · 30 episodes
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Audio in Chinese
0. What Exactly Does “China” Mean? 1. The Entrance to a New World Is Here 2. Villain or Legend? Setting Prejudice Aside, Who Was An Lushan? 3. How Chaotic Was the An Lushan Rebellion? 4. After the Rebellion, How Did the Central Plains Decline and the Steppe Rise? 5. From Bipolar to Multipolar: “Colliding Billiard Balls” across Eurasia 6. Barbarous Invaders? We May Have Misunderstood the Khitan Empire 7. Alliance and Betrayal: The Love-Hate Relationship of Khitan and Shatuo 8. Abaoji's Rise: Instigated, Murder over Salt, or the People's Choice? 9. From Calling Each Other Father and Son to War: What Happened between Khitan and Shatuo? 10. Who Was Civilized and Who Barbarous? Conflicting Accounts of One War 11. In Chaos, Are Strength, Weakness, Victory, and Defeat Ever Absolute? 12. Li Cunxu Fell and Abaoji Died Suddenly—What Next for Shatuo and Khitan? 13. Why Could Abaoji's Eldest Son Tuyu Not Inherit the Throne? 14. How Did Liao and Song Maintain Peace for More Than a Century? 15. Why Are the Khitan So Mysterious? 16. Tuoba, Khitan, and Mongol: How Were They Related? 17. Fragmented and Erased: Why Is Western Xia a Dark Zone of History? 18. From Myth to History: Who Were the Jurchens and the Jin State? 19. How Did the Mongol Empire Become History's “Ultimate Integrator”? 20. The Great Southwestern Campaign: How Did the Mongols Build the Largest Land Empire? 21. Were Clues to the Mongol Empire's Fragmentation Present from the Start? 22. What Did Kublai Face in His Legitimacy-Strained Fight for the Throne? 23. How Was a Rare Unification of North and South Achieved? 24. How Did the Mongols Connect Sea and Land and Create a Maritime Age? 25. Why Did Kublai Create a True Age of World History? 26. How Did the Game of Thrones Unfold after Kublai's Death? 27. Disaster, Corvée, Rebellion: How Was the Mongol Empire Overthrown? 28. Conclusion: Rethinking History and the Future from All Humanity's Perspective