China in World History

62 China in World History The fl ourishing sea-based trade with India and Southeast Asia brought increasing prosperity to centra ...

Reunified Empires 63 Despite its inglorious end, the Tang period as a whole has long been regarded as one of the truly great age ...

64 China in World History poetry, considering them too constraining for his unbridled inspiration. He liked to give the impressi ...

Reunified Empires 65 their camels. Music from Central Asia also became popular in China and transformed Chinese popular musical ...

66 China in World History of great cultural pride for the Chinese people. The meaning of the Can- tonese name for Chinatown stil ...

T he half century between the Tang and Song dynasties is known as the period of the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms, in referenc ...

68 China in World History were deeply committed to the Confucian classics. Perhaps in reaction against the perceived excesses of ...

Diminished Empire and Nomadic Challengers 69 Xia court substantial annual payments as well, thus buying peace on the northwester ...

70 China in World History purpose of the program. Wang stirred up such powerful opposition that he was forced to resign from off ...

Diminished Empire and Nomadic Challengers 71 form of calligraphy called “slender gold.” He brought many painters to his court, w ...

72 China in World History Hangzhou Beijing Kaifeng Fuzhou Yangzhou Chengdu Guangzhou Khotan Kashgar Samarkand Bukhara Venice Jer ...

Diminished Empire and Nomadic Challengers 73 self-consciously condescending toward their nomadic neighbors than their Tang prede ...

74 China in World History active physically and, at times, very assertive politically (e.g. Empress Wu). In the Song period, mal ...

Diminished Empire and Nomadic Challengers 75 adding to their allure. So the female bound foot came to symbolize many things: wea ...

76 China in World History This detail from QingmingFestival Along the River, an eighteenth-century, thirty- holiday in the North ...

Diminished Empire and Nomadic Challengers 77 eight-foot-long copy of a twelfth-century handscroll, depicts a Spring Festival by ...

78 China in World History manufacturing of iron weapons in great quantities. In 1084, the court sent to one army on its northwes ...

Diminished Empire and Nomadic Challengers 79 true porcelain, using purifi ed clays, fi ring at temperatures of 1300 degrees cent ...

80 China in World History regularly, and keep moving rapidly for days on end. Military command- ers used fl ags, torches, and me ...

Diminished Empire and Nomadic Challengers 81 involved and the natural tensions that arose among the descendants of Genghis Khan, ...