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	Southern Tang - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Southern Tang (also refered to as Nantang) was one of the Ten Kingdoms in south-central China created following the Tang Dynasty from 937-976.
		Southern Tang replaced the Wu Kingdom when Li Sheng (a.k.a Xu Zhihao) deposed the emperor Yang Pu.
		Southern Tang was conquered in 976 by the Northern Song Dynasty.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Southern_Tang_Kingdom (300 words)

	Chinese art - Open Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		4 The Sui and Tang dynasties (581 – 960)
		The Sui and Tang dynasties (581 – 960)
		By the Tang dynasty, a series of set tonal patterns had been developed, which were intended to ensure a balance between the four tones of classical Chinese in each couplet: the level tone, and the three deflected tones (rising, falling and entering).
	open-encyclopedia.com /Chinese_art (5486 words)

	Zhuang 08
		In Yunnan, although Nanzhao had been destroyed by the Tang, its successor, Dali, restored the independence of the region by 938 and survived under various names until it was finally encorporated into China by the Mongol Yuan dynasty (1206-1368) in 1253.
		Southern Han continued to drive Chu back, and in 947, when Chu forces were weakened by turmoil in Hunan, Southern Han invested the northern portion of Guangxi, though the key to the river routes of the north, Guilin, remained out of its control.
		Southern Han was fighting wars on two fronts in these years: in the north with Chu; in the south attempting to hold Vietnam until it suffered a major defeat at the Bach-dang river in 938.
	mcel.pacificu.edu /as/resources/zhuang/zhuang8.htm (9635 words)

	Middle East Open Encyclopedia: Jiangxi (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		During the Northern and Southern Dynasties Jiangxi was under the control of the southern dynasties, and the number of zhou slowly grew.
		The Tang Dynasty collapsed in 907, heralding the division of the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms period.
		The southern half of the province is hilly with ranges and valleys interspersed; while the northern half is flatter and lower in altitude.
	www.baghdadmuseum.org /ref/index.php?title=Jiangxi (1781 words)

	Encyclopedia: Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms Period
		Wu quarrelled with her neighbours, a trend that continued as Wu was replaced with Southern Tang.
		In the 940's Min and Chu underwent internal crises which Southern Tang handily took advantage of, destroying Min in 945 and Chu in 951.
		Jingnan and Wuping were swept away in 963, Later Shu in 965, Southern Han in 971, Southern Tang in 975.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Five-Dynasties-and-Ten-Kingdoms-Period (9125 words)

	Southern Tang -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		The capital was located in Jinling (modern (A city in eastern China on the Yangtze River; a former capital of China; the scene of a Japanese massacre in the 1930s) Nanjing or (additional info and facts about Jiangsu) Jiangsu).
		Southern Tang was conquered in 976 by the (additional info and facts about Northern Song Dynasty) Northern Song Dynasty.
		Upon Xu Wen's death, he took over power in Wu, and was made a prince of (The circulating life energy that in Chinese philosophy is thought to be inherent in all things; in traditional Chinese medicine the balance of negative and positive forms in the body is believed to be essential for good health) Qi.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/s/so/southern_tang.htm (373 words)

	Tang Dynasty -- Political, Social, Cultural, Historical Analysis Of China
		Tang army general Su Dingfang was famous for fighting on both the front in Oxus valley and on Korean Peninsula.
		Meantime, Tang defeated the Khitans in Manchuria, and controlled central and eastern Mongolia, thus stretching 9,510 li east to west and 10,918 li south to north in its territories.
		Tang's civil minister Fei Xingjian would be responsible for quelling the Eastern Turkic rebellion in AD 680 and in AD 681 via strategies like 'hiding soldiers inside the grain carts' and 'offering 10,000 liang (a unit of weight similar to ounce) gold for the head of the khan'.
	www.uglychinese.org /tang.htm (6657 words)

	Imperial Era: II
		The Tang period was the golden age of literature and art.
		But perhaps an even greater consideration for the Tang rulers, aware that imperial dependence on powerful aristocratic families and warlords would have destabilizing consequences, was to create a body of career officials having no autonomous territorial or functional power base.
		From Tang times until the closing days of the Qing empire in 1911, scholar-officials functioned often as intermediaries between the grass-roots level and the government.
	www-chaos.umd.edu /history/imperial2.html (909 words)

	Chinagate: Symposium at the Metropolitan Museum on Chinese Paintings Dec. 11, 1999 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Tang is the brother of the wife of Wen Fong, professor emeritus at Princeton University who has been consultative chairman of the museum's Chinese Painting, Department of Asian Art, since the early 1970's when he orchestrated the acquisition of 25 allegedly early Chinese paintings from C. Wang.
		Sheng's grandson Li Yu became the ruler of the Southern Tang in 961, was captured by the Song army in 975, and died in captivity three years later in the Song capital, Bianjing.
		The late Tang and the short-lived Southern Tang of ninth- and tenth-century China are generally perceived as constituting a period of political and social turmoil, of moral decadence and artistic decline.
	www.thecityreview.com /symposium.html (13571 words)

	Five Dynasties Period and Ten Kingdoms Period
		Tang power ebbed by the center of the eighth century A.D. Domestic economic instability and military defeat in 751 by Arabs at Talas, in Central Asia, marked the beginning of five centuries of steady military decline for the Chinese empire.
		The dispersal of political and economic power that marked the collapse of the Tang dynasty resulted in a brief period of disunion known as the Five Dynasties period (AD 907-960).
		While the Qidan were building up a strong state, the central government of the Tang Dynasty had been much weakened by the increasing power of the frontier commanders who were in charge of the country's military regions.
	www.paulnoll.com /China/Dynasty/dynasty-five-dynasties.html (630 words)

	Tang Dynasty Literature
		the reign of Hsuang Tsung,patron of the arts,poet himself,longest reigning Tang ruler
		Tang prose stands out as a result of movement that called for the revival of writing realistic,
		Tang novels are known as marvel novels / 'zhi kuai' (the strange & mysterious),aiming to satisfy the curiosity of man & to serve as warnings to lead a morally upright life
	www.angelfire.com /journal2/wen/tang.html (472 words)

	Tibetan History (4)
		Tibet wanted the four Tang garrisons at the Southern Xinkiang (which guarded the silk-road from Tang through Xinkiang and Central Asia), and Tang wanted the re-establishment of Tu-Yu Huen as the power in Qinghai (most Tu-Yu Huen moved back to the valleys at the source of Yellow river and were called `Atsai' in Tibetan).
		The Tang court thought the whole event was embarrassing and hid the truth.
		In 755, the commander of the Northeast garrison of Tang, An Lu-San (Mongol) rebelled.
	omni.cc.purdue.edu /~wtv/tibet/history4.html (989 words)

	About (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Tang Soo Do is one of Korea's foremost and oldest martial arts.
		Tang Soo Do is in fact a composite style consisting 60% Soo Bahk, 30% Northern Chinese (hard), and 10% Southern Chinese (soft).
		Tang So Do is both a hard and soft style, deriving its hardness from Soo Bahk Ki and the Northern Chinese influences.
	www.ttsda.org /about.htm (493 words)

	Hubei (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Hubei, which is in southern China, remained under southern rule for this entire period, until the reunification of China by the Sui Dynasty in 589.
		In 617 the Tang Dynasty replaced Sui, and later on the Tang Dynasty placed what is now Hubei under several circuits: Jiangnanxi Circuit in the south; Shannandong Circuit in the west, and Huainan Circuit in the east.
		After the Tang Dynasty disintegrated the 10th century, Hubei came under the control of several regional regimes: Jingnan in the center, Wu (later Southern Tang) to the east, and the Five Dynasties to the north.
	www.worldhistory.com /wiki/H/Hubei.htm (1595 words)

	Welcome to the Independent Tang Soo Do Association (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		During this period the Tang Dynasty was in power in China.
		Tang Soo Do is a composite style, 60% Soo Bahk, 30% Northern Chinese (hard)and 10% Southern Chinese (soft).
		Tang Soo Do therefore, is both a hard and soft style, its hardness coming from Soo Bahk Ki and the Northern Chinese influence.
	www.itsda.co.uk /WhatisTSD.html (304 words)

	ancient and medieval coins of China - reference guide)
		At the establishment of Sui, the fiduciary coins of Northern Zhou and Ch'en were in use and the economy is recorded as having been in a poor state.
		The K'ai-yuan coinage, usually attributed to T'ANG KAO TSU, was cast almost continuously throughout the 300 years of T'ang rule, with the only major change the addition of mint marks in AD 841.
		The Southern T'ang Dynasty was one of the more powerful and stable of this period.
	www.calgarycoin.com /reference/china/china4.htm (4808 words)

	Asia Society Southern California Announces Bold New Leadership
		Tang joins Asia Society Southern California after having served on the Society's Board of Trustees last fall and seeks to make it a leading forum for U.S.-China relations.
		Tang came to the United States 24 years ago as a penniless student without a grasp of the English language.
		Tang also serves as a Board Member and Trustee for several community organizations, including the California Institute of Technology, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, RAND Center for Asia Pacific Policy, the California Science Center and the United Way of Greater Los Angeles.
	www.prnewswire.com /cgi-bin/stories.pl?ACCT=109&STORY=/www/story/05-24-2005/0003685826&EDATE= (1042 words)

	Song Dynasty -- Political, Social, Cultural, Historical Analysis Of China
		Southern Song would then play the card of allying with the Mongols in destroying Jurchen Jin, and it even sent tens of thousands of carts of grain to the Mongol army in the besieging of the last Jurchen stronghold.
		Southern Tang army, claiming 150000, led by "jiedu-shi" (satrap or governor) Huangfu Hui and Yao Feng, overflowed the Qingliu-guan Pass.
		Southern Tang stationed its army on the beach of Shibali-tan (eighteen Chinese mile beach).
	www.uglychinese.org /song.htm (8406 words)

	Scenic Spots in Nanjing
		Inside the temple are Guanyin Building, Huomeng Building, Jingyang Building, Rouge Well, etc. Legend has it that when the emperor of the Southern Tang Dynasty and his concubine hid themselves in the well in order to escape the enemy pursuit, the stains of rouge were left on the well: hence the name of Rough Well.
		It was named "Baogong Monastery" in the Tang Dynasty, Kaishan Monastery in the Later Tang Dynasty, Taiping Xingguo Temple in the Song Dynasty, and Jiangshan Temple in the Yuan Dynasty and the beginning of the Ming Dynasty.
		At the back of the temple is the pagoda for Buddhist relics, the remains of the Southern Tang Dynasty and one of the oldest stone pagodas south of the Yangtze River.
	www.cs.wisc.edu /~hangying (3744 words)

	Middle East Open Encyclopedia: Koxinga (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		One of these descendants, Prince Tang, was aided to gain power in Fuzhou by Huang Daozhou and Zheng Zhilong, Koxinga's father.
		When the Qing captured Prince Tang, Koxinga was in Zhangzhou raising soldiers and supplies.
		He heard the news that his father was preparing to surrender to the Qing court and hurried to Quanzhou to persuade him against this plan, but his father refused to listen and turned himself in.
	www.baghdadmuseum.org /ref/index.php?title=Koxinga (1217 words)

	5 dynasties and 10 kingdoms - China History Forum, online chinese history forum
		As the army of later Tang was nearing Bianliang, Zhu Youzhen was in despair.
		Later Tang hurriedly dispatched Zhang Jingda (张敬达) as the head of a large army to crush the rebellion.
		The depletion of material resources weakened Southern Tang, resulting in its defeat by Later Zhou and the further loss of large expanses of land north of the Yang Tze River.
	www.chinahistoryforum.com /index.php?showtopic=778 (6926 words)

	The Night Revels of Minister Han Xizai is believed to have been a painted by the Southern Tang artist Gu Hongzhong for ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		The Night Revels of Minister Han Xizai is believed to have originally been painted by the Southern Tang artist Gu Hongzhong for the emperor Li Yu of that dynasty.
		The emperor, seeking to shame the wayward minister into exhibiting greater decorum, assigned a painter to attend the night-long parties as a secret informant, and to afterwards recreate on silk the untoward behavior he had witnessed among the officials present.
		It is said that Minister Han Xizai, after being confronted with his misdeeds recorded in detail in the painting, disregarded this tactful reprimand and continued his escapades up until the fall of the Southern Tang to Song forces.
	depts.washington.edu /chinaciv/painting/4revbkgd.htm (195 words)

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		Tang had very little left afterwards and Shi won the deciding third game going away 11-4.
		Tang and Cindy Shi had paired up for the women's doubles event and they ended up with all the marbles.
		Trisna Gunadi and Eileen Tang of Southern California took the mixed doubles title, defeating Hoang Ly and Cindy Shi in the championship match 8-15, 15-10, and 15-11.
	www.worldbadminton.com /shuttlenws/19970407.html (353 words)

	Nanjing travel guide (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		In the Five Dynasties Period following Sui and Tang, when the rest of China was torn by wars among various states contending for supremacy the Southern Tang Dynasty with its capital at Jinling was still able to exercise sovereignty in that part of China south of the Yangtze River.
		Set on the southern slope of the Zhongshan Mountain, the mausoleum of the first emperor of the Ming Dynasty (1368-1644), Zhu Yuanzhang, and the empress, is the largest among the mausoleums of the emperors of the Ming Dynasty.
		The city gate stands in southern Nanjing and is the best-preserved city gate built during the Ming Dynasty (1368-1644).
	www.cnhomestay.com /city/cityguides/nanjing.htm (1681 words)

	Mauldin High School :: Staff ::
		 Tang repression marked the end of Buddhist expansion in China, although the religion continued to survive as a major aspect of Chinese culture.
		 A massive population increase of ethnic Chinese in the southern portions of China compelled the emperors from the Sui on to improve communications, most commonly through the construction of a series of canals linking the north China plain with the Yangtze River basin.
		The construction of the Grand Canal accelerated the shift of population to the south.
	www.greenville.k12.sc.us /mauldinh/staff.asp?ID=kammons&PAGE=532 (2539 words)

	Five Dynasties and Ten States: Chinese History
		After the perdition of Tang, the northern part successively raised five dynasties: Later Liang, Later Tang, Later Jin, Later Han and Later Zhou, lasting totally 53 years.
		In the counter part, this was also a time that led people to the future combination of the Song Dynasty, as a result of the last king's effort to unify the north.
		The southern China continued to update the techniques of weaving, tea-producing, and porcelain-making.
	www.warriortours.com /intro/history/five_dynasty (157 words)

	China Southern Airlines Co.,Ltd (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		China Southern Airlines is proud to be the largest airline in The People's Republic of China.
		Our Cargo Department was created in November 2001 - as it separated operations from the on-going passenger services - and a subsquent cargo sales system was inaugrated in January 2002.
		The success of this new cargo system symbolizes the maturity and development of China Southern Airlines cargo system and is the first of its kind in China.
	www.cs-air.com /en/hydc (147 words)

	Chinese Dynasties
		Thus, before the Tang Dynasty, there was the Six Dynasties period, followed by the short-lived Sui Dynasty (all together 7 Dynasties in 140 years).
		In Chinese historical documents, it is common to identify a person's life and accomplishments by the Dynasty in which he (or she) lived, and, frequently, according to the Emperor who lived at that time.
		At the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty, Emperor Liu Shan ruled in exile from 224-263 A.D. * The Ten Kingdoms were the Wu, Nan Tang (Southern Tang), Wu Yue, Chu, Min, Nan Han (Southern Han), Qian Shu (Former Shu), Hou Shu (Later Shu), Jing Nan (Southern** Jing), and Bei Han (Northern Han).
	www.itmonline.org /arts/dynasties.htm (1544 words)

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