Volume and Number
Studies on East Asia, Volume 20
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Publication Date
1997
Managing Editor
Edward H. Kaplan
Publisher
Center for East Asian Studies, Western Washington University
City
Bellingham, Washington
Description
Son of Heaven and Heavenly Qaghan: Sui-Tang China and its Neighbors by Pan Yihong: The conquest of the last of the Southern Dynasties by Sui in 589 brought to an end the Period of Disunion which had started with the collapse of Han in 220 C.E. The Sui dynasty was short-lived but laid the foundation for the Tang (618-907), an age of outstanding political and cultural achievement to which later generations looked back with nostalgia.
The Sui-Tang period of over three centuries stands as a high point in the development of Chinese civilization. It not only restored the unity of the Chinese empire, it enlarged this concept which had been born in early Zhou, idealized by the Confucian thinkers of the Warring States and given definite form in Qin and Han. At the end of Tang the pattern of unity was again challenged, but the ideal persisted and has remained very much alive to the present day.
DOI
https://doi.org/10.25710/vs3m-gw59
Publisher (Digital Object)
Resources made available by the Center for East Asian Studies and Western Libraries, Western Washington University.
Type
Text
OCLC Number
37293383
Geographic Coverage
China--Foreign relations--Asia, Central; Asia, Central--Foreign relations; China--Foreign relations--To 1644; China--History--Sui dynasty, 581-618; China--History--Tang dynasty, 618-907
Disciplines
Asian History
Keywords
Sui dynasty, Tang dynasty, Sui-Tang period
Document Type
Book
Recommended Citation
Pan, Yihong, "Son of Heaven and Heavenly Qaghan: Sui-Tang China and its Neighbors" (1997). East Asian Studies Press. 6.
https://cedar.wwu.edu/easpress/6
Rights
Copyright 1997 the Center for East Asian Studies, Western Washington University
Language
English
Format
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