01:11

September 2024 Break Announcement - we will be back in October!

21:26

Episode 76 | Tragedy in Mexico: the Torreón massacre | 托雷翁大屠杀

24:23

Episode 75 | Ancient Chinese tales: how to become an outlaw 101 (ft. Lin Chong) | 林冲逼上梁山

17:09

Episode 74 | The history of soy sauce | 酱油的历史

16:50

Episode 73 | The Vietnamese Joan of Arc: Lady Trieu | Bà Triệu/婆趙

21:51

Episode 72 | The First Opium War (Part 2) | 第一次鸦片战争 (下)

19:06

Episode 71 | The First Opium War (Part 1) | 第一次鸦片战争 (上)

01:09

Break time! See you all in June 2024

24:39

Episode 70 | China’s most underrated (and only monogamous) emperor: the Hongzhi Emperor | 弘治皇帝

21:15

Episode 69 | Story Special: the 'Handan' walk and a strange way of trying on shoes | 邯郸学步和削足适履

19:38

Episode 68 | Famous East Asian Female Doctors (Part 2): Jang Geum |長今/장금

15:22

Episode 67 | Famous East Asian Female Doctors (Part 1) Tan Yunxian | 谈允贤/談允賢

21:29

Episode 66 | The “Qing Ming Shang He Tu” painting, aka China’s Mona Lisa | 清明上河图

28:35

Episode 65 | True crime special: the missing bride and the monk in the wedding dress | 太原迷案

03:12

End of year message 2023 – we’ll be back in 2024!

28:58

Episode 64 | Killing your brother for the throne: the Xuanwu Gate Incident | 玄武门之变

16:17

Episode 63 | The history of sumo wrestling | 日本相撲(相扑)的历史

14:17

Episode 62 | Xun Guan: the real life Mulan and teenage girl warrior! | 荀灌 #kween

13:34

Episode 61 | Do you know da wae? Invention of the compass | 指南针的发明

19:15

Episode 60 | The goldfield riots at Lambing Flat | 蓝滨滩暴动

04:23

Bloopers! (Episodes 30 to 59)

21:25

Episode 59 | When all of Wu Zixu’s hair turned white in a day! | 伍子胥

30:18

Episode 58 | Honour or self-preservation, the dilemma of King Gwanghaegun | 광해군/ 光海君

18:19

Episode 57 | Japanese History Special: Ohaguro - the beauty of black teeth | お歯黒/黑牙

38:30

Episode 56 | The ancient Chinese Jews (ft. Anson Laytner) | 开封犹太人

19:11

Episode 55 | Food history special! The history of tofu | 豆腐的历史

44:32

Episode 54 | The development of Malaysian Chinese identity with my mate Davo | 马来西亚华人

22:31

Episode 53 | The homosexual Emperor Ai and Dong Xian | 汉哀帝和董贤

28:53

Episode 52 | How the Communists got China: The Pingjin Campaign (Part 3) | 平津战役 (第三部)

29:42

Episode 51 | How the Communists got China: The Huaihai Campaign (Part 2) | 淮海战役 (第二部)

30:48

Episode 50 | How the Communists got China: The Liaoshen Campaign (Part 1) | 辽沈战役 (第一部)

01:06

Easter break announcement! We'll be back 2 May

19:14

Episode 49 | How ancient Chinese rulers were chosen: the Mandate of Heaven | 天命

29:59

Episode 48 | Matteo Ricci: the Italian priest who pretended to be a Chinese guy | 利玛窦

17:56

Episode 47 | True crime: Case of the floating man | 商人浮尸之案

31:09

Episode 46 | Chinese story special: A country that only has women! | 女儿国

24:10

Episode 45 | The history of Hui Chinese Muslims | 回族人的历史

17:04

Episode 44 | Food history special: the History of Korean barbeque | 한국 바베큐의 역사/ 韩国烧烤历史

16:52

Episode 43 | The Kangxi Emperor: China’s longest reigning emperor (Part 2) | 康熙皇帝 (下)

24:50

Episode 42 | The Kangxi Emperor: China's longest reigning emperor (Part 1) | 康熙皇帝 (上)

29:22

Episode 41 | Wang Dayuan: a Chinese explorer that visited Australia in the 1300s? | 航海家汪大渊

08:59

End of Year Message! Thoughts, reflections and plans for 2023

25:08

Episode 40 | The ancient Korean queen who was… Indian? Heo Hwang-ok | 허황옥/许黄玉

17:23

Episode 39 | Banking in ancient China $$ | 中国古代银行

20:08

Episode 38 | The most evil female in ancient China: Daji the fox girl | 妲己

05:01

A chinese zombie ('jiangshi') in Sydney, Australia | 悉尼僵尸

12:35

Episode 37 | The story of the first Asian “tiger parent” (Mencius's mother) | 孟母三迁

19:23

Episode 36 | Arabs v Chinese, who will win? Battle of Talas | 怛罗斯战役/ معركة نهر طلاس

19:27

Episode 35 | HALLOWEEN SPECIAL: the jumping Chinese zombie aka the “jiangshi” | 僵尸

42:18

Episode 34 | History of Vietnamese Pho Noodles with Andrea Nguyen | Lịch sử của phở/ 越南河粉的历史

26:59

Episode 33 | Fighting back the pirates! the Wokou (Part 2) | 倭寇海盗 (下)

27:01

Episode 32 | East Asian Pirates yarrrrr: the Wokou (Part 1) | 倭寇海盗 (上)

19:16

Episode 31 | Unique Chinese Occupations: a job where you got paid to do NOTHING | 门客

04:55

Little filler ep. | Blooper Reel | 什么? #podcasting #bloopers

03:46

Little filler episode | The mysterious Chinese board game ‘liubo’ | 六博

25:38

Episode 30 | Vietnam History Special: the Trung Sisters | Hai Bà Trưng/征氏姐妹

23:06

Episode 29 | The history of Chinese Chess: Xiangqi | 象棋的历史

22:33

Episode 28 | When an Emperor was attacked by 15 young girls: the Renyin Palace Plot | 壬寅宫变

22:19

Episode 27 | The story where 1 man fights 150,000 men: Empty Fort Strategy | 空城计

23:11

Episode 26 | The world’s longest artificial river: The Grand Canal | 大运河