Gesamtlänge aller Episoden: 7 hours 10 minutes
Steve, Jude, Gongjin and Drew unite to discuss what had gone wrong with the Han. As the novel descends into the civil war, we look at what had gone wrong in the longer term for the Han that had led to the kind of revolts that opens the novel. Finances, foreign policy, instability at court, decisions made in the last years of peace, while Gongjin talks of the impact of a changing climate adding strain upon the Han...
On Friday will be the closing episode of season 2, discussing the Han's decline with Steve, Jude, Gongjin and Drew reunited. Clips from eunuch discussions, military expenses and inconsistency, climate change, late reform while we discuss much more in the episode itself. So come join us for Friday's discussion.
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Music is Sao Meo Orchestral Mix by Doug Maxwell/Zac Zinger
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Steve and Jude joined are by Benjamin, known as Archlich on tumblr and also his three kingdom wordpress articles in The Classical Amateur...
Chapter 4: Not Ideal Party Guest coming on Friday with Steve, Jude and Benjamin (Archlich of tumblr), discussing Dong Zhuo’s now cemented control of the capital, Dowager He’s formidability, why Steve will not be inviting Cao Cao to his next party and a sad poem.
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Music is Sao Meo Orchestral Mix by Doug Maxwell/Zac Zinger
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Steve and Jude are joined by Cat from the sosz and tumblr community to discuss chapter 3 of the novel: He Jin’s clash with the eunuchs, flight of princes and the arrival of the corrupt general Dong Zhuo, finding a vacuum of power amidst the fire and chaos. We say hello to one of the great warriors in Lu Bu, great of strength but perhaps not in filial loyalty.
We worked on the sound so we are hoping for a more even pitch. Let us know if that worked for you...
Trailer for episode 3 Blood and Fire, the start of a new season. Clips on Yuan Shao's motives, Dong Zhuo's background and the appropriate reaction to such a thoughtful gift. On Friday, Steve, Jude and a new guest will be discussing chapter three of the novel and the history of the time amidst chaos and violence at court.
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With his second book three kingdoms Heroes of Chaos book launched this week, Steve and Jude interview Baptiste Pinson Wu (at the time, was not our editor) about his first book Yellow Sky Revolt, the main character Liao Hua, the Yellow Turbans, Cao Cao and the three kingdoms generally. A friendly chat, we decided to let this run the full length. This interview is going to relax our no spoiler about the era rule so avoid if you wish to avoid hearing about what happens beyond the Yellow Turbans...
Steve, Jude (hosting this time) and Gongjin return to discuss the Yellow Turbans. Topics of conversation are the history of the Turbans, their beliefs, what we know of them, who they were and why things went so badly for them.
Our first deep dive, focused solely on the history of the subject (in this case, the Turbans) rather then a novel chapter and it's themes. Will be doing these at appropriate junctures where a character has died or a major event worth exploring has passed...
Trailer for our first deep dive episode, on the now defeated Yellow Turbans of 184. Steve, Jude, Gongjin on teachings, ant armies, what-if, Han commanders, Han treatment of commanders. The episode will have so much more on the Turbans and the camapign
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Music is Sao Meo Orchestral Mix by Doug Maxwell/Zac Zinger
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Steve is joined by translators Drew and Gongjin to discuss the second episode of the novel. Turban use of magic and their final stance, the arrival of the brave Sun Jian and stories of his merchant family, the violence in the time of peace including the treatment of two of our heroes and chaos at the court are delved into.
We are aware of the sound varying issue, sound is better on episode 3 Fire and Blood onwards but we aim to go back to fix said sound variation with our editor...