Ep. 267 | Eunuchs in Chinese History (Part 1)
The China History Podcast
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Eunuchs and the Fall of the Chin Dynasty
Eunuchs have been around since the shang dynasty, china's oldest dynasty for which there is a written record of its existence. The first great eunuch disturbance that warranted its own miniseries happened around the mid point of the second century c e. And certain events from those times, we remember times when they were able to gain control of the levers of power and in each case, drove the dynasty into the ground.
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