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#228 - Special: 8th Anniversary Q&A

The History of China

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The Disturbance of the Treasure Fleet

The debate about whether gin should be considered a variety of mandarin or its own dialect does remain unsettled. Long time listener and epic question asker, n l wrote in into the post, jungha era, it's still not clear what the otiv to destroy documents of the travels were. Also, ching is generally considered as the pinnacle of the close door policy and a return to classic feudalism. Ming, on the other hand, is regarded as exemplarily advanced to commerce. Maybe not as open as song, but commerce and industry were highly encouraged. So that's where we will leave that discussion.

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