This week, Allison and Max tell the stories of two Badass Bitches from Asia. One gave birth to a form of writing that would eventually give us epics like Game of Thrones and Lord of the Rings; The other pulled herself up by the bootstraps, all the way to the pinnacle of Chinese authority, and guided a nation into the future: Murasaki Shikibu and The Empress Dowager Cixi. / This episode originally aired on March 21, 2016 /

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