#194 - Intelligent Speech: Hidden Narratives from the Middle Kingdom
My presentation to the 2020 Intelligent Speech Convention, on Women, Minorities, and reading between the bamboo scrolls of history to find the hidden stories. Also with a Q&A session after. Hosted on ...
1 Juli 202037min
#193 - Yuan 12:Blue Sky, Red Turban, White Lotus, Black Death
As Toghon Temur - the eleventh and final Great Khan of the Yuan, takes the throne - the dam holding back the near century of bad decisions back begins to buckle. Things are not helps by a dramatic cli...
15 Juni 202042min
Rebroadcast: 6/4 - UK Cable on the Tiananmen Square Massacre
31 years later, To forget is to risk it all happening anew... Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
4 Juni 202012min
#192 - Mongol 14.1: There & Back Again
In the aftermath of the Golden Horde's devastating strike into Eastern Europe, Christendom reels. As apocalyptic as the assaults were, the great enemy's sudden and inexplicable evaporation offers no c...
20 Maj 202044min
#191 - Special: "Superpower Interrupted," an Interview with Author Michael Schuman
My interview with Beijing-based author and journalist Michael Schuman about China's history, present, future, and food... and of course about his upcoming book, "Superpower Interrupted: The Chinese Hi...
11 Maj 202052min
#190 - Yuan 11: The War of the Two Capitals
We start today in the aftermath of the murder of the 9th Great Mongol Khan and the 5th Emperor of Yuan. We end a decade later, at the beginning of the 15th Great Khan and 11th Yuan Emperor... coincide...
26 Apr 202042min
#189 - Yuan 10: The Third Rail
Temur Khan's death without an heir sparks a power vacuum within the Yuan court - two brothers will come to power together, but only one will be able to sit the throne at a time, who will succeed? Mean...
8 Apr 202048min
#188 - Mongol 13: O Lord, Why Are Thy Judgements So Deep?
King Bela IV of Hungary has a bit of a barbarian problem. You see, he let in some Cumans, but now some different barbarians are demanding that he give them back. So Bela does the sensible thing: he ki...
23 Mars 20201h 16min
