MMW 12 Lecture Notes - Lecture 17: Han Chauvinism, Tuoba, Taoism

• School: UCSD
• Department: Making of the Modern World
• Course: MMW 12
• Professor: Alexander B Stewart

Document Summary

The cosmopolitan tang dynasty (618 907 ce) Both han and tang dynasties experienced disunity between religion and secular authority. Tang emperors traces ancestry to northern nomadic people tried to rule as traditional. Chinese emperors: tang dynasty as a (cid:862)(cid:272)o(cid:374)(cid:395)uest(cid:863) dy(cid:374)asty (cid:272)a(cid:374) (cid:271)e see(cid:374) i(cid:374) aspe(cid:272)ts of thei(cid:396) so(cid:272)iety ie. fashio(cid:374) Qin han as sui tang: sui lasted shortly but made large contributions to chinese societies contributions are able to make tang last a long time. Grand canal: links north and south, provides way to transport grain around. Equal field system: go(cid:448)"t o(cid:449)(cid:374)s all la(cid:374)d a(cid:374)d dist(cid:396)i(cid:271)utes it a(cid:272)(cid:272)o(cid:396)di(cid:374)g to household la(cid:271)o(cid:396, takes power away from landed gentry and centralizes it in government. North: military rule, buddhist or daoist. Individualism: foreign connections, women ran household, horsemanship, pastoralism/ wheat farming. Isolationism/ han chauvinism: women isolated in homes, seamanship, rice farming. Language: e(cid:373)pe(cid:396)o(cid:396)s spoke tuo(cid:271)a xia(cid:374)(cid:271)ei, use (cid:862)ha(cid:374)(cid:863) as de(cid:396)ogato(cid:396)y te(cid:396)(cid:373), gi(cid:448)e tu(cid:396)ki(cid:272) (cid:272)hildhood nicknames.