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The Greatness and Failure of a New Imperial Experiment: Sui and Tang
Yang Zhao Retells Chinese History, Season 6
Completed · 41 episodes
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Audio in Chinese
0. What Historical Realities Do We Ignore When We Praise the Han and Tang Golden Ages? 1. Where Did the Sui Dynasty Begin to Take Shape? 2. How Could Tensions between Hu and Han Be Resolved? 3. Northern Zhou Strikes Back: Strategic Position, Troops, and Money 4. Yuwen Yong: The Man Who Truly Laid the Foundation for Unification 5. From Northern Qi to Sui: Yang Jian's Innovations 6. Sui Infrastructure on the Scale of a Peaceful Golden Age 7. Did Late-Sui Construction Projects Harbor Grave Crises? 8. Why Was the Sui So Short-Lived? 9. Was the Tang's Founding the Inevitable Course of Imperial Institutions? 10. Was the Great Tang Really a Unified Golden Age? 11. A Female Emperor's Breakthrough and Sorrow under Patriarchy 12. Managing Aristocratic Lineage: The Key from Early to High Tang 13. Classics Specialists, Presented Scholars, Cultivated Talents—Who Ranked Highest in Tang Exams? 14. What Were the Three Most Glorious Things in the Tang? 15. Why Did the Useful Fubing Militia System Fail in the Tang? 16. From Local Militia to Military Governors: A Key to Mid- and Late-Tang Decline 17. The Deeper Symbolic Meaning of the An Lushan Rebellion 18. What Is the “Curse of the Golden Age”? 19. How Were Tang Civil-Service Examinations Related to Factional Strife? 20. A Court out of Control: From Factional Strife to Eunuch Dominance 21. Did Xuanzang's Journey Transform Buddhism's Status in the Tang? 22. What Distinguished Chinese Buddhism in the Tang? 23. Tiantai's “Three Thousand Realms in One Thought”: How Does One Cultivate Oneself? 24. How Can One Reach the Realm Where Phenomena Interpenetrate without Obstruction? 25. Where Did the Tang's Open Atmosphere Come From? 26. After the Tang, Did Women Love Beauty More Than Men? 27. After the Tang, Did Marriage Become an Affair between Two Families? 28. Did the Open Tang Society Also Have a Conservative Side? 29. What Exactly Was the Classical Prose Movement between Tang and Song? 30. How Can Prose Express an Individual's Character and Value? 31. From Essays to Letters: Innovations of the Tang Classical Prose Movement 32. Why Was Reviving Confucianism and Classical Prose a Literary Advance? 33. More Than Two Thousand Poets and Forty Thousand Tang Poems—Where Do We Begin? 34. How Did Landscape and Nature Become Major Themes in Tang Poetry? 35. Beyond Perfect Parallelism, What Else Could Tang Poetry Do? 36. “Too Thin from the Hardship of Poetry”: Why Is Du Fu Tang Poetry's Other Summit? 37. How Can Poetry Be Both Accessible and Artistic? 38. Politically Frustrated: How Did Mid-Tang Poets Write amid Chaos? 39. Unfulfilled Ambition: Late-Tang Poets' Implications and Anxieties 40. Did Late-Tang Regional Separatism Destroy the Social Basis of China's Dynastic Order?