Ep. 331 | The History of Yunnan Province (Part 4)
Here's Part 4 of my latest effort. This episode examines all the events leading up to, during, and immediately after The Panthay Rebellion, 1856-1872. Since the time of the Mongols, the Hui Chinese ha...
23 Heinä 202348min
Laszlo chats with Iron Horse Road Podcast producers Hao Huang and Micah Huang
A few days ago, Laszlo sat down with good friend Hao Huang and son, Micah, at Scripps College where Hao is the Bessie and Cecil Frankel Chair in Music. In 2021 they co-produced the Blood on Gold Mount...
18 Heinä 202331min
S8E01 | Wouldn't Change a Thing
Welcome back to another season of Chinese Sayings. For the Season 8 opener, we open with a well-known and useful chengyu: Yī Zì Qiān Jīn 一字千金. The story behind this classic from The Record of the Gran...
16 Heinä 202311min
Ep. 330 | The History of Yunnan Province (Part 3)
In this latest installment of the Yunnan History series, we take the narrative up to the Qing Dynasty in the 1800s. The province had been relatively peaceful since the late 13th-century Mongol conques...
9 Heinä 202343min
Ep. 329 | The History of Yunnan Province (Part 2)
We pick up after the fall of the Tang Dynasty and Nanzhao Kingdom. The main focus in this Part 2 episode will be the rise and fall of the Dali Kingdom and the Mongol Conquest of Dali in 1253. We'll al...
25 Kesä 202342min
The History of Beijing with Jeremiah Jenne
The response was so positive last time longtime Beijing ex-pat Dr. Jeremiah Jenne appeared on the CHP, we decided to invite him on the program again. Seeing how JJ has called this magnificent city hom...
23 Kesä 202332min
The Ming Dynasty, Europa Universalis IV, and Grand Strategy Gaming with Álvaro Sanz of Paradox Interactive
Over the past year, I've had the great pleasure of working with a talented group of game developers at Paradox Tinto, one of the studios where they design and develop history-based grand strategy game...
20 Kesä 202343min
Ep. 328 | The History of Yunnan Province (Part 1)
In this first episode of a multi-part series, we'll look at Yunnan's ancient beginnings during the Zhou Dynasty and take things up to the end of the Nanzhao Kingdom in the 10th century. The Dian Kingd...
11 Kesä 202342min
