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Title: Chinese Hegemony: The Tang


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Chinese Hegemony The Tang Song Golden Age
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Re-cap Important Dates
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I. Early Dynasties
  • Xia? (2200 B.C.E.)
  • 1. Shang (1766-1122 B.C.E.)
  • 2. Zhou (1122-221 B.C.E)
  • 3. Qin (221 -206 B.C.E.)
  • -first Emperor, coins
  • 4. Han (206 B.C.E.-220 C.E.)
  • -Confucianism, scholar-gentry, paper porcelain

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II. Post-Han China
  • 1. Period of the Six Dynasties (220-589 C.E.)
  • - bureaucracy collapsed
  • - Buddhism gained strength, replacing
    Confucianism for a time
  • - nomads ruled much of Chinese territory

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III. Sui Dynasty (589-618CE)
  • lowered taxes
  • established granaries
  • reconstruction of bureaucracy
  • reconstruction of Confucian scholar-gentry
  • extension of Grand Canal

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Sui Grand Canal
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IV. Tang Dynasty (618-918)
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  • 1. Capital city Changan
  • 2. Imperial power moral restraint
  • 3. Cosmopolitan attitude towards religions
  • Three Doctrines
  • Buddhism, Confucianism, Daoism
  • 4. Tang armies extend West
  • used Turkic nomads in military (Uighurs)
  • Great Wall is repaired
  • loss to Arabs at Battle of Talas (751)

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A. Empress Wu (625-705)
  • ruled for 50 years (only female empress)
  • began as imperial concubine
  • 2. Imperial civil exam system
  • blow to noble class
  • social mobility of scholar-gentry
  • Neo-Confucianism official philosophy
  • increased literacy uniting China
  • 4. BACKLASH AGAINST BUDDHISM

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Tang Government Organization
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B. New Technologies
  • 1. re-established the safety of the Silk Road
    (tea from S.E. Asia)
  • 2. Inventions
  • moveable typeset printing
  • porcelain
  • GUNPOWDER
  • mechanical clocks

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C. East Asian Cultural Sphere
  • 1. Chinese cultural diffusion throughout East
    Asia
  • sinification
  • Korea, Japan, Vietnam assimilate Chinese
    culture
  • Confucianism
  • Buddhism
  • writing system

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D. Tang Decline Losing the Mandate
  • 1. Xuanzong
  • Empress Wus grandson
  • lack of morality?
  • executed favorite consort during a rebellion
  • 2. Causes for decline
  • land distribution breaks down
  • poor attention to canal irrigation systems
  • NOMADIC INVASIONS

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Tang Xuanzong (The Profound Emperor)
Consort Yang
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V. Song Dynasty (960-1279)
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A. Beginnings
  • 1. followed the chaos of the Five Dynasty
    Period
  • 2. based on Neo-Confucianism
  • 3. civil examination system

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B. Government
  • 1. flying paper money (increased commerce)
  • 2. government schools
  • 3. Imperial civil service exams
  • 4. replaced corvée labour with paid labor from
    taxes
  • 5. trained militia supplied arms
  • 6. paid Mongols in silk for protection

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C. Increasing population
  • 1. new developments in rice cultivation
  • -champa (wet rice) production from Vietnam
  • 2. Population grew from 60 to 100 million
  • 3. Rice also used to brew wine

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Champa wet rice production
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D. Role of women
  • 1. new ideal of the "willow-waisted woman
  • 2. against widow remarriage
  • 3. ability to inherit property control of
    family/budgets
  • 4. upper-class female foot-binding
  • Size 5 ½ shoe on the right

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Foot-Binding in Tang Song China
  • Broken toes by 3 years of age

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E. Culture
  • 1. Literature popularization of vernacular
    language
  • 2. Poetry used to spark political reform
  • 3. Paintings landscapes (harmony between humans
    and nature)

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  • Poem of Farewell to Liu Man by Yelu Chucai
    (1190-1244)
  • "Despotic officials and shyster underofficials,
    may they feel ashamed!"

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Travelers Among Mountains Streams by Fan Kuan
(ca. 1000)
A Chinese scholar in a meadow
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12 Views from a Thatched Hut by Xia Gui, early
13th century
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Spring Festival Along the River byZhang
Zeduan (1085-1145)
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  • Henan jar, Song Dynasty

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  • Jun ware Song Dynasty

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F. Technology
  • irrigation fertilizer
  • large ships called junks
  • compass
  • waterwheels canal locks
  • 5. gunpowder crouching tiger catapults
  • 6. printing paper money

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Junks the Compass
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Astronomical Clock
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Paper Currency
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Military Technology

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First case of gun grenade (950 C.E.)
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G. Commercial Growth
  • 1. production of silk cash crops (tea)
  • 2. Commerce improved farming cause Urbanization

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H. Split of North South Song
  • Weak military dependent on bureaucrats
  • Song invaded by northern nomads (Jurchin)
  • 2. Southern Song Dynasty (1127-1279) allied w/
    Mongols for protection

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I. Collapse of Southern Song
  • 1. Invasion by Mongols (1279)
  • start of Yuan Dynasty (Mongol Dynasty)
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