1. Golden Age Chinese Civilizations
Rebuilding the Imperial Power in the
Sui-Tang Era
Tang Decline and the Rise of the Song
Tang and Song Prosperity: The Basis of a Golden Age

2. 11 26 Agenda Objective: Describe the SPICE of Tang and Song China
Record HW – Read 13.1 and finish SPICE Notes for Tang and Song China
Take 7 Mins to find as many SPICE details as you can.
Tang and Song Notes

3. Grand Canal

4. What and When??????

5. China During the Age of Division
The Fall of the Han led to a time of disunity and Warlords

6. China During the Era of Division, The Sui Dynasty, and the Tang Dynasty

7. Rebuilding the Imperial Edifice in the Sui-Tang Eras
Sui Excesses and Collapse
Reorganized Confucian education
Scholar-gentry and examination system reestablished
Used forced labor used to build Grand Canal, game parks forests
Unsuccessful War with Korea and forced labor – led to Revolts

8. Grand Canal

9. What purpose does the Canal serve?

10. Sui Excesses and Collapse
Canals built across empire
Attacked Korea
Grand palace

11. Rebuilding the Bureaucracy
Unity
New Capital Chang’an
Aristocracy weakened
Confucian ideology revised
Scholar-gentry elite reestablished
Bureaucracy
Bureau of Censors

14. The Growing Importance of the Examination System
Ministry of Rites
Birth, connections important for office
Think Mulan

15. Confucianism and Buddhism potential rivals
Buddhism had been central
Mahayana Buddhism popular in era of turmoil
Chan (Zen) Buddhism common among elite

16. Early Tang support Buddhism
Empress Wu ( )
Endows monasteries
Tried to make Buddhism the state religion
50,000 monasteries by c. 850

17. The Anti-Buddhist Backlash
Confucians in administration
Support taxation of Buddhist monasteries
Loss of Labor - Monks could not be conscripted
Persecution ( )
Monasteries destroyed
Lands redistributed
Confucian emerges the central ideology

18. The Founding of the Song Dynasty
907, last Tang emperor resigns
Song unable to defeat northern nomads
Song pay tribute to Liao

19. China During the Song Dynasty Era

20. China During the Southern Song Dynasty Era

21. Song Politics: Settling for Partial Restoration
Scholar-gentry patronized
Given power over military
ideal of the universal man
qualities of scholar, poet, painter, and statesman
Song intellectuals sought answers to all philosophical and political questions in the Confucian Classics.

22. The Revival of Confucian Thought
Libraries established
Old texts recovered
Neo-Confucians
Stress on personal morality
Hostility to foreign ideas
Gender, class, age distinctions reinforced

23. Song Decline: Attempts at Reform
Khitan independence encourages others
Song forced to pay tribute
Disdain for military elite led to $ spent on social and cultural pursuits and not military
attempt reform
Irrigation projects, $ for mercenary forces, taxed scholars with regularity.

24. Tang and Song Prosperity: The Basis of a Golden Age
Canal system
Built to accommodate population shift
Yangdi's Grand Canal
Links North to South

25. A New Phase of Commercial Expansion
Silk routes reopened
Greater contact with Buddhist, Islamic regions
Sea trade
Developed by late Tang, Song
Junks

26. A New Phase of Commercial Expansion
Commerce expands
Credit
Deposit shops
Flying money
Urban growth
Changan
Tang capital
2 million

27. Family and Society in the Tang-Song Era
Great continuity
Marriage brokers(match makers)
Elite women have broader opportunities
Divorce widely available

28. The Neo-Confucian Assertion of Male Dominance
Neo-Confucians reduce role of women
Confinement
Men allowed great freedom
Men favored in inheritance, divorce
Women not educated
Foot binding

30. A Glorious Age: Invention and Artistic Creativity
Influence over neighbors
Economy stimulated by advances in farming, finance
Explosives
Used by Song for armaments
Compasses, abacus
Printing with moveable
type

31. Flying Fire Crow
Flying Fire Crow
Gun powder

32. Porcelain (“China wear”)
Spinning wheel
Small Pox vaccine
Porcelain (“China wear”)

33. Scholarly Refinement and Artistic Accomplishment
Scholar-gentry key
Change from Buddhist artists
Secular scenes more common
Nature a common theme in poetry, art