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Podcast: Barbarians at the Gate
Episode: Barbarians at the Gate Podcast: The An Lushan Rebellion
Description: Our inaugural episode looks at An Lushan: the outsider who charmed his way into the court of the Tang Dynasty in the eighth century and who almost succeeded in bringing down the empire. It’s a story made for imperial slash fic: The aging emperor, his rotund but sexy concubine, and the foreigner who came between them.