S2:E3 – Yuan, Ming and Qing China - The Struggle to Define China
Is China Bigger? Smaller? Controlled by Han Elites or Foreign Outsiders? Who gets to be Chinese and what does it mean to be Chinese
2 years ago
Episode Notes
We discuss the trauma of the Mongol Conquest // China's incorporation into Mongol Asia // Ming Revolution, Zheng HE's explorations // The Great Wall and Turning Inward // Little vs Big "China" // The End of the Ming and the Manchu Conquest // The Last Ride of the Northern Barbarians // the Great Library and the Heights of Cultural Power