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Mongolia Was Never Just the Yuan Dynasty
Yang Zhao Retells Chinese History, Season 8
Completed · 38 episodes
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Audio in Chinese
1. The “Distance” between the Yuan Dynasty and the Mongol Empire 2. Genghis Khan: Mythologized or Underestimated? 3. Why Were Mongol Armies So Efficient in Battle? 4. A Principle of War: Punishing Betrayal? 5. Are the Legends of Mongol Massacres True? 6. Who Could Resist the Mongols? 7. Was Genghis Khan a Hero Created by His Age? 8. How Long Did the Mongols Take to Become a Conquering Dynasty rather than a War Machine? 9. What Changed When Ögedei Inherited the Throne? 10. What Did Ögedei Do Right in Conquering the Central Plains? 11. Was Kublai's Rise Connected to the Struggle for the Khaganate? 12. How Did the Mongols Profoundly Influence China? 13. How Did Literati Find New Life under Mongol Restrictions? 14. What Did Slow Sinicization Mean for Yuan History? 15. Did Yuan Rule Not Need Han Chinese? 16. Was Yuan Politics a Hybrid of Steppe and Agrarian Civilization? 17. Was Succession the Greatest Crisis for a Steppe Empire Ruling China? 18. What Choices Did Literati Have under the Yuan? 19. How Did Zhu Xi Enable the Expansion of Yuan Civil-Service Examinations? 20. Did Yuan People Become Sinicized—or Literatized? 21. Could Literati Identity Transcend Ethnicity? 22. Which Mattered More: Loyalty to the Ruler or the Hua–Yi Distinction? 23. Did Commercialized Literati Fuel the Flourishing of Zaju Drama? 24. Were Literati Much More Restricted from Office under the Yuan than the Song? 25. Office or Reclusion: What Distinguished Yuan Neo-Confucianism? 26. How Did Multicultural North and South Form under the Mongol Yuan? 27. What Were Eurasia's Religious Conflicts Like before the Mongol Yuan? 28. Were the Crusades a Collective Business Venture Using Religion as an Excuse? 29. How Did Seafaring and Trade Transform China under the Mongol Yuan? 30. How Did Marco Polo's Eastern Journey Affect Han Culture? 31. Did Urban Development Make the Mongol Yuan a True World Empire? 32. Where Did Yuan Knowledge of Maritime Trade Geography Come From? 33. Why Could the Yuan Not Establish Stable Imperial Rule? 34. What Was the Yuan's Greatest Crisis at the Dynasty's End? 35. What Social Factors Lay behind Late-Yuan Popular Rebellions? 36. What Caused the Late-Yuan Turmoil: Disaster or Nationalism? 37. Alliances among Local Powers: Where Did Late-Yuan Militarization Come From? 38. Was the Yuan–Ming Transition Not a “National Revolution”? (Finale)