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How Buddhism and Foreign Peoples Changed China: The Wei, Jin, and Northern and Southern Dynasties
Yang Zhao Retells Chinese History, Season 5
Completed · 41 episodes
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Audio in Chinese
1. Why Does Chinese History Need a Medieval Period? 2. Did Dispersed Villages Begin Only in Medieval China? 3. Medieval Society: An Unmistakable “Age of Aristocracy” 4. How Did China’s Medieval Period Differ from Europe’s Middle Ages? 5. From Western Jin to Eastern Jin: Imperial Power That Could Not Be Sustained 6. From Eastern Jin to Liu Song: Power in Motion 7. Song, Qi, Liang, and Chen: The Rapid Turnover of Southern Dynasties 8. Amid Constant War, Where Did the Glamour of the “Six Dynasties” Come From? 9. From Land-Occupation Rules to Great Estates: Balancing Emperor and Aristocratic Clans 10. Were Wei-Jin Luxuries Purchased with Silk? 11. In Wei-Jin Eyes, Did Office Determine Status? 12. Is Talent Innate or Acquired? 13. What Separates a “Hero” from an Ordinary Person? 14. What Kind of Quality Was Fengliu? 15. What Was the Relationship Between Buddhism and Huang-Lao Thought? 16. How Buddhism Challenged and Changed Chinese Ideas 17. From Faith to Reflection: How Was Buddhism Localized in China? 18. Buddhism’s Special Uses in an Age of Chaos 19. Why Does Distinguishing Literary Genres Matter? 20. What Were the “Music Bureau Poems” Written by Aristocrats Like? 21. How Should We Judge the Literary Achievements of Cao Cao and His Sons? 22. What Exactly Did Tao Yuanming Create? 23. Six Dynasties Literature: Self-Expression and Constraint Together? 24. Why Has “Artificial” Parallel Prose Survived? 25. Could Six Dynasties Parallel Prose Exist Without Tonal Patterning? 26. What Can We Still Appreciate in Rigid Parallel Prose? 27. The Beauty of Chinese Literature: Finding Freedom Within Pattern 28. Where Did Ethnic Consciousness and the Hua-Yi Divide Come From? 29. Did the Non-Han Peoples Who “Disordered China” Share Han Values? 30. Why Were the Sixteen Kingdoms So Chaotic? 31. Why Is Northern Dynasties History Especially Important? 32. Entering the Central Plains: The Rise and Ambition of Tuoba Gui 33. Cui Hao, the Northern Wei’s Most Trusted Great Clansman 34. How Did Northern Wei “Great Walls” Differ from the Han’s? 35. How Did the Equal-Field System Shape Northern Wei Rule? 36. From Sight to Sound: Emperor Xiaowen’s Radical Path of Sinicization 37. Why Did Emperor Xiaowen Persist in Sinicization, and What Contradictions Did It Create? 38. The Northern Wei Legacy and the Beginnings of Sui-Tang Unification 39. The Foundational Age of Chinese Buddhist Culture 40. What Did the Contradictory Culture of the Wei and Jin Leave China? Schedule Notice