Alice Han
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first heard Jul 2026
last heard 2 Jul
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in imperial history was in the Ming dynasty in the 1500s.
There was this Muslim eunuch captain who was an amazing figure in Chinese history who went out all the way to Africa and brought back a giraffe to the emperor's court.
And that was the last time.
After that, they decided, hey, why are we going to Africa?
It's too expensive.
We should just focus on our own great culture and economy and system.
And the other thing that I would say is that
I don't think this is understood enough.
Historically, China has been controlled, if you go to imperial history, by non-Han people.
So the Han Chinese are the majority of the Chinese.
Okay.
I think close to 90% of the population.
But...
If you look at the Qing Empire, which is the last empire in China, that was the Manchurians, that area that is the Korean Peninsula and northeast China.
They are not ethnically the same as the Han people.
They were basically foreigners who invaded and took over the country and imposed things like the Q. In Chinese, you've got the shaved head and the long braid.
That is not a Han Chinese.
That is a complete Qing Manchurian.
And then you also know that the Mongols took over centuries before that and founded their own dynasty.
So China doesn't have that same historical legacy of going out and wanting to invade other countries and have an empire.
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