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The History of China

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The History of China

Chris Stewart

#335 - Taiping 12: The Man In Hunan

June 30, 2026 11:56am 37 min

While the Northern Expedition dies in the freezing mud of Shandong, the Taiping's second strike — the Western Expedition — turns its sights on the provinces they've already ridden through on the Yangtze, a kingdom to go ...

#334 - Taiping 11: The Spear of Heaven and the Winter Wolf

June 23, 2026 3:42pm 31 min

The Taiping Army commits to one of its most audacious acts yet – an assault on the Qing throne itself, a thousand miles north in Beijing. To reach it, it will launch its great Northern Campaign: a single spear-throw that...

#333 - Taiping 10: All Things In Common

June 15, 2026 4:11pm 39 min

Finally pooled and stilled at Nanjing, in the afterglow of victory, the Taiping reflect on what they’ve become, and what they’ve yet to accomplish. In the cold light of the morning after, though, dreams do not equal resu...

#332 - Taiping 9: Heaven Is A Place On Earth

June 08, 2026 2:02pm 37 min

The Heavenly Host arrives at last before the walls of the South Capital. What follows is not a battle so much as a verdict – rendered in powder, fire, and seven days of smoke and blood. A city is taken, renamed, and rema...

#331 - Taiping 8: Kingdom Come

May 31, 2026 2:31pm 42 min

The Heavenly Host marches north out of Hunan. Ahead of them lies the spine of China itself – the mighty Yangtze; maker and breaker of dynasties. The trading capitals strung along its southern bank glimmer like beads on a...

#330 - Taiping 7: Beneath the Walls of Changsha

May 23, 2026 4:40pm 34 min

The Heavenly Host has arrived at the great provincial capital of Hunan - Changsha. The mighty bastion that will prove to be the first city on the long march north that simply refuses to fall. For two months in late 1852,...

#329 - Taiping 6: River of Souls

May 15, 2026 9:27pm 36 min

The army that marches north out of Quanzhou in June 1852 is not the same one that left Jintian 18 months prior. It has left its prime architect in an unmarked grave, massacred the city that killed him, and crossed into t...

#328 - Taiping 5: The Way Ahead

May 08, 2026 5:00pm 53 min

The Taiping Heavenly Kingdom has been proclaimed — but proclamations don't feed armies. As such, its Divine Host will enjoy all of 11 days before sheer arithmetic forces them back onto the road. What follows is eight mon...

#327 - Taiping 4: The Heavenly Kingdom

April 27, 2026 11:57pm 40 min

The God-Worshippers of Thistle Mountain managed to survive their first test — but now the world itself seems dead-set on finishing the job. When unprecedented rains lead to flooding, famine, and pestilence across souther...

#326 - Taiping 3: The Image-Breakers

April 21, 2026 1:11pm 35 min

The God-Worshippers of Thistle Mountain, under the dual leadership of Hong Xiuquan and Feng Yunshan, had gone from being a quirky, backwater oddity... to, by 1847, a real local headache. When they get bold enough to defa...

#325 - Taiping 2: The God Worshippers

April 15, 2026 12:05am 43 min

Amidst the ashes of the Opium War, a new flame is beginning to kindle – not in the halls of power, but in the distant, forgotten hills and mountains. While the would-be prophet Hong Xiuquan returns home, his closest frie...

#324 - Taiping 1: The Second Son of God

April 07, 2026 5:39pm 39 min

Even in the fallout of the Opium War, dreams endure—but what happens to a dream deferred? In Canton, one young man’s starry-eyed visions of success run headlong into the brutal wall of the Imperial Examination system. An...

Intelligent Speech 2026 - Nemesis, Mine

March 31, 2026 12:57pm 40 min

TheKangxi Emperor’s Obsessive Pursuit ofGaldan Khanto the Endsof the EarthPresented: 02/28/2026audio-only cut (this is from my mic pick-up, so the host's audio is low... apologies... I'll replace it with a better final v...

#323 - Opium War 8: Perfect Equality

March 26, 2026 10:34pm 43 min

The war is over. The treaty is signed, sealed, & delivered. Yet though the smoke has cleared, the haze of uncertainty over what - exactly - just happened... lingers on. And that misunderstanding will echo for the next ce...

#322 - Opium War 7: The Throat of the Empire

March 19, 2026 12:37am 47 min

The new envoy from London arrives at Qing's doorstep in August 1842 with a simple mandate: stop allowing Britain to be "humbugged" & finish the war Elliot started. What follows is the British Empire at its most efficient...

#321 - Opium War 6: Imperial Ouroboros

March 10, 2026 12:56pm 37 min

The Ransom of Canton.The lame-duck Superintendent watches helplessly as a triumvirate of Qing officials arrives to reverse every compromise his predecessor had wrought... & promptly launches the most ambitious Chinese mi...

#320 - Opium War 5: Bayonets In the Dragon's Teeth

February 22, 2026 1:55pm 45 min

Britain carries the Opium War to Beijing's unready doorstep with steam and iron, moving the crisis from the border frontiers to the heart of the imperial court itself. As imperial defenses strain and diplomacy replaces d...

Re'cast: #11 - Special: Gong Xi Fa Cai! (OG: 2014)

February 20, 2026 3:47pm 36 min

It's been 12 years since this initially was 'casted out - which means that the Year of the Horse is back, baby! Now it's the Fire Horse, but Happy Happy to Everyone! 马年快乐! 🔥🐎🧧 This Episode, we take a time-out from the h...

#319 - Opium War 4: Peddling the Drug Peddlers' War

February 09, 2026 5:00pm 41 min

Britain and China both saw the opium crisis clearly enough to know it would end in disaster. Each believed it understood the situation, and the other, well enough to keep events from spinning out of control. And yet... i...

#318 - Opium War 3: Up In Smoke

January 31, 2026 6:09pm 57 min

Lin Zexu believed moral clarity and the largest drug bust in history could end the opium crisis and avert war. Yet, as his solution drained into Humen Bay, so too did the last hope of peace between China and Britain.Time...

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