MMW 12 Lecture Notes - Lecture 21: Six Dynasties, Exoticism, Four Books And Five Classics
22 Mar 2016
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Mar 2 lecture chinese court life: beauty and exoticism l combination and utilization of diverse cultural traditions was the. Inter-marriage u chinese tradition + central asia + u not pursuing a single unified cultural/ethnical purity u also seen in warfare l horsemanship imported from central asia l. Iron weapons (new technology) developed l armed infantryman emerged l tang owned the most powerful army on the planet then. It was during the expansion of islam (umayyad and abbasid). l the tang (618-907 ce) n descended from sui dynasty the first strong centralized government after han u wen di (cid:29)(cid:12)(cid:11)(cid:17)(cid:6) the founder of sui l. In order to protect, to defend, and to guard the outlying prefectures l. The destiny is determined already. n (page 321-22) the one man taizong. Autumn annals (cid:27) (cid:15) (cid:13) (cid:21) (cid:14)(cid:22) n role of men u to become a bureaucrat to gain power and enhance social position u must be trained with confucian classics (very restricted)
