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Surviving an Age of Chaos: From the Eastern Han to the Three Kingdoms
Yang Zhao Retells Chinese History, Season 4
Completed · 43 episodes
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Audio in Chinese
1. Is the Purpose of History Merely to “Learn from the Past”? 2. Why Did the Center of Chinese Civilization Move South? 3. Why Did Eastern Han Empresses Have So Few Children? 4. Concentrated Imperial Power Was Not the Theme of Eastern Han Politics 5. The Emperor Was Not Truly an Emperor, and Ministers Were Not Quite Ministers 6. Did the Scholar’s Defiance of Power Begin Here? 7. How Did the Han Twenty-Rank System Differ from the Qin? 8. Was the Twenty-Rank System the Foundation of Rule by Law in Han Society? 9. Did China’s Pastoral Ideal Originate in the Han? 10. How Did Han Society Reorganize as Great Clans Rose? 11. In a Disordered Empire, Did Knowledge Become the Only Route Upward? 12. Did the Han Establish the Diet of Rice in the South and Wheat in the North? 13. Did Most Chinese Cooking Methods Take Shape in the Han? 14. Caps, Robes, Lapels, and Jackets: Dressing in the Han 15. Two Bedrooms and a Hall—or Two Bedrooms and a Living Room—in Han Homes? 16. Did the Han Already Have Transport Networks and Inns? 17. Emperors Selling Offices: The Extraordinary Disorder of the Late Han 18. Why Did the Partisan Prohibitions Raise the Morale of Scholar-Officials? 19. Ghosts and Souls in the Han Worldview 20. The Rise of Daoism and Local Disorder in the Late Han 21. Two-Thirds of the Population Vanished: What Besides War Happened in the Late Han? 22. How Did Poor Han People Survive After Leaving the Land? 23. The Origins of China’s “Official Histories”: How Do the Book of Han and Records of the Grand Historian Differ? 24. How Did Records of the Three Kingdoms Enter the Four Histories? 25. Why Is Romance of the Three Kingdoms So Compelling? 26. Was the Idea of the “Three Kingdoms” Retrospectively Constructed? 27. Did the System of Regional Governors Begin the Three Kingdoms Crisis? 28. What Was Cao Cao’s Most Innovative Achievement Amid the Rival Warlords? Bonus | Yang Zhao to Graduates: Make the Effort “Not to Play the Tune of Your Age” 29. A Realm Divided into Three: Crisis and Trial Together Live Replay | Xu Hong × Yang Zhao: History, the Present, and the Imagination of Early China 30. Wang Chong, the “Provincial Scholar,” and His Life in His Own Words 31. What Biases Did the “Confucian” Wang Chong Hold Against Confucius? 32. How Did the Frustrated Wang Chong Become a Man of the Imperial Academy? 33. From Strange Tales and Claims to the Birth of Wei-Jin Metaphysics 34. Changing Systems for Selecting Talent from the Late Han to the Wei-Jin Era 35. In the Hierarchical Wei-Jin World, Did Status Determine Everything? 36. Metaphysics and the Wei-Jin Elite’s “Secret of Immortality” 37. The Seven Sages of the Bamboo Grove: Individuality Within Aristocratic Culture 38. Why Did Mahayana Buddhism Flourish in China? 39. Beneath the Bodhi Tree: Shakyamuni’s Arduous Path to Awakening 40. Did Early Buddhism Require Asceticism for Awakening? 41. Buddhism Enters China: New Ideas and Profound Change