Three Kingdoms Discourse

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. Baptiste Pinson Wu various media can be found here including his website, his youtube channel Back in Fiction and twitter while his books can be found on likes of Amazon and Good Reads. Steve on Tumblr and Jude on tumblr have both reviewed the first book. If looking for non-spoilery reviews, we suggest looking at ToriTalks: she is someone who's coming to Yellow Sky Revolt unfamiliar with the era, that will give you a good idea how accessible it is for you  This is the end of our first season, The Rise of the Yellow Sky, with season 2 going to be following on the chaos at the Han court, chapters 3 and 4 of the novel and another deep dive, a season with both new and existing guests. Will be a delay till season two but we hope to see you again soon. Chapter timings 00:00 Intro 02:15 Book Writing 19:15 Three Kingdoms 42:55 Yellow Turbans 52:50 Cao Cao 01:11:29 Book Two Heroes of Chaos and Newsletter Transcript Artwork with permission from Baptiste Music is Sao Meo Orchestral Mix by Doug Maxwell/Zac Zinger

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.   Date of Taiping Jing  Chapter timings: 00:00 Intro 01:03 What We Know 15:05 Context in which they rose 21:42 Turban plot 29:40 The War 48:43 Aftermath 56:58 Goodbye Transcript can be found Artwork by Zhaolie Music is Sao Meo Orchestral Mix by Doug Maxwell/Zac Zinger

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 Artwork by Zhaolie Music is Sao Meo Orchestral Mix by Doug Maxwell/Zac Zinger

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. Chapter timings 03:38: Turbans 10:18: Sun Jian 19:47: Post Rebellion 32:28: He Jin vs eunuchs 44:45: Ending Transcript Artwork by Zhaolie Music is Sao Meo Orchestral Mix by Doug Maxwell/Zac Zinger

Trailer for episode 2 with Steve joined by two new guests. Clips from discussions on background, who beats the inspector, bribery, state of the Han with the episode to have so much more. Artwork by Zhaolie Music is Sao Meo Orchestral Mix by Doug Maxwell/Zac Zinger

Steve and Jude are joined by Aaron (Yue Fei) to discuss the first chapter of the novel. The Han decline, the Yellow Turban revolt that spread across the land, the introduction of major figures for the future in Liu Bei’s brotherhood and the wily Cao Cao. Aaron going deep into the memorable weaponry made for the brotherhood and where the ideas for such weapons came from. Chapter timings  0:43 Han Decline 11:24: Turbans 19:42: Liu Bei 41:59 Cao Cao 40:56 Dong Zhuo and ending Transcript here Artwork by Zhaolie Music is Sao Meo Orchestral Mix by Doug Maxwell/Zac Zinger

A few short clips from the first episode and of what we will be discussing. Oaths, decline of a dynasty, the Turbans and what is appropriate to do at home. 

Steve (Sun Fin) the host and regular panellist Jude (DongZhou) briefly  discuss what the podcast does. For those seeking out the novel Romance of the Three Kingdoms (we will be using the Moss Roberts translation), we have a list (including podcasts and free versions) on our tumblr and we can be found on Scholars of Shen Zhou Transcript of episode Artwork by Zhaolie   Theme music Sao Meo Orchestral Mix - Doug Maxwell & Zac Zinger