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Title: Tang


1
Tang Song China
Chinese Buddhist monk Xuanzang spreads Buddhism
to Tibet
2
Post Han
  • Period of disunity
  • Decline of Confucian bureaucracy
  • Buddhism enters flourishes
  • Sui dynasty return to dynastic imperialism
  • Brief violent assassinations of both main
    emperors

3
Tang established
  • Li Yuan secures frontiers
  • extends empire into Tibet, Manchuria Vietnam
  • Korea a tributary kingdom
  • Importance of Buddhism leads to higher status for
    women

4
Civil Servant system
  • Rulers restored Confucian imperial bureaucracy
  • Bureau of Censors evaluated all levels of
    bureaucracy
  • Examinations become more regular determine rank
  • (examinations on Confucian works)

5
Tang Religious issues
  • Tang rulers patronized Buddhist monasteries and
    Confucian schools
  • Monasteries increased to 50,000
  • Monasteries untaxed housed anyone
  • Resented by Daoists Confucians
  • Emperor Wuzong began suppression of Buddhism
    recovery of lands

6
Developments Tang
  • Grand Canal Li Bo - poet
  • Commercial shipping
  • Early Junks
  • Capital city of 2 million!
  • State funded irrigation canals
  • Distribution of lands to peasants
  • Better status for women

7
Tang decline
  • Disruptions in royal family
  • Empress Wei
  • Emperors concubine issue
  • Discontent with powerful women
  • A failed rebellion
  • Nomadsregional govts

8
Song Dynasty
  • Partial restoration of empire
  • Civil servants (scholar-gentry) limited milit
    growth
  • Exams continued but easier
  • Bureaucracy became larger less efficient

9
Neo-Confucianism
  • Hostile to outside ideas
  • Tradition, social hierarchy, gender distinction
    more rigid Male dominance
  • Women restricted to household / no education
  • footbinding emerges- esp. among upper class

10
Developments Song
  • Decline in status of women
  • Gunpowder
  • Junks
  • Compasses for sea navigation
  • Abacus
  • Movable type
  • Landscape painting at height

11
Decline recentering fall
  • Military weakness
  • Neighboring kingdoms demanded tribute
  • Wang attempts reforms
  • Southern Song
  • Retreats below the Yangtze river
  • Eventually falls to the Mongols

12
  • (Enter.
  • the Mongols)

13
Korea
  • How did China impact?
  • How did Korea develop differently?

14
Vietnam
  • How did China impact?
  • How did Vietnam develop differently?

15
Japan
  • How did China impact?
  • How did Japan develop differently?

16
Medieval Feudalism
Western Europe King/kingdom High
lords/barons Counts Knights
Japan Emperor-ceremonial Shogun/shogunat
e Daimyo Samurai
17
Chivalry Bushido
  • What common values and expectations did these 2
    codes of conduct have?
  • To whom did the codes apply?
  • Why did the codes develop?

18
Samurai fighting the Mongols
19
  • ? Gi Rectitude
  • ? Yu Courage
  • ? Jin Benevolence
  • ? Rei Respect
  • ? Makoto or ? - Shin Honesty
  • ?? Meiyo Honor, Glory
  • ?? Chu Loyalty
  • -Translations from Random House's
    Japanese-English, English-Japanese Dictionary
  • Others that are sometimes added to these
  • ? - Ko - Filial piety
  • ? - Chi - Wisdom
  • ? - Tei - Care for the aged

Influenced by Confucianism
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