# Zhou Kingdom

This episode takes about two poems that deal with the foundation of the Zhou kingdom and of the people's move from nomads to settlers. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/paul-cady/support

Jonathan Clements returns to talk about his book on the First Emperor of China and the man who was sent to kill him: facts and fictions in Zhang Yimou’s movie Hero (2002), the evil mirror-universe version of Confucianism, an impossibly well-endowed “eunuch”, the construction of the Terracotta Army,…

Today's episode is a little supplemental episode which basically talks about the Mandate of Heaven and it's effects.The Zhou used this to justify their overthrow the tyranny of the Shang, who knew they set in motion a concept that would outlast them by...

In this episode, the Shang Dynasty falls and the Zhou Dynasty rises to take its place. But being the faction at the top is harder than it looks, and over time the Zhou suffer a gradual decline. However, the political and philosophical ideas which they nurtured continue to influence East Asian thoug…