[Podcast] The importance of succession ritual in China, then and now

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In the early hours of August 14, 1524, as many as 250 officials of the Ming dynasty staged a protest in the Forbidden City, a last desperate attempt to resolve what became known as the Great Ritual Controversy.

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Narrated by Cliff Larsen.

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