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| | Sui & T'ang Dynasties (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01) |
 | | Although the Han had been destroyed, the ideal of a centralized empire had never disappeared; it was left to the short-lived, native Chinese dynasty, the Sui (581-618), to fulfill that ideal. |
 | | Yet the Sui laid the foundations for another glorious age, that of the T'ang (618-906), which at its height controlled a pan-Asian empire stretching from Korea to the borders of Persia. |
 | | At the same time, with the advent of a recentralized empire, the fortunes of Confucianism rose: the civil service examinations reintroduced by the Sui were significantly expanded, and during the reign of the second T'ang emperor, T'ai-tsung (627-49), a wide range of Confucian scholarly projects was undertaken under imperial sponsorship. |
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