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  The Second Empire and the Beginning of the End
Despite the fact that the royal houses of Sui and succeeding Tang were not entirely Han Chinese, both of these dynasties are considered to be Chinese, as opposed to the Mongols and Manchus later on.
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  Emperor Xuanzong of Tang - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Emperor Tang Xuanzong (Chinese: 唐玄宗) (September 8, 685 - May 3, 762), born Li Longji (李隆基), was the sixth emperor of the Tang dynasty of China, reigning from 712 to 756.
Xuanzong saw in Silla a valuable ally on its flank, particularly against the growing power of the state of Bohai (Balhae), which in 733 had actually launched a seaborne attack on Dengzhou in Shandong.
Xuanzong fled to Sichuan during the war, and Yang Guifei and Yang Guozhong, who attempted to flee with him, were killed by the Imperial army for their perceived part in the Emperor's weakness and loss of control.
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 Science Fair Projects - Emperor Xuanzong of Tang China
Emperor Tang Xuanzong (唐玄宗) (685 - 762), born Li Longji (李隆基), was the sixth emperor of the Tang dynasty of China.
Known also as Tang Minghuang, the early half of his reign (712-756) saw Tang China reach the height of her powers, in a period known popularly as the Kaiyuan era (開元之治).
Xuanzong fled to Sichuan during the war, and Yang Guifei and Yang Kuozhong who attempted to flee with him were killed by the Imperial army for their perceived part in the Emperor's weakness and loss of control.
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 Hmong - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
All intimidations and unfair tributes led to the outbreak of Nanzhao rebellion during the Tianbao era (742-756) of Emperor Xuanzong of Tang China.
Tang Dynasty gradually increased numbers of military district bordering Nanzhao and consequently the insurgences of was the first of the rebellions leading to the fall of Tang.
Nanzhao, under the influence of Tang for a century (8th century to 9th century), was gradually adopting the Chinese culture and at the same time disintegrated as struggles of power among various rival clans.
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 Reference.com/Encyclopedia/Emperor Xuanzong of Tang
Emperor Tang Xuanzong (September 8, 685 - May 3, 762), born Li Longji (李隆基), was the sixth emperor of the Tang dynasty in China, reigning from 712 to 756.
Tang Xuanzong decided that it would be wiser to make Unified Silla as an ally rather than vassal because the Tang army was having it's own war in the Northern and Western front with the nomadic people and Tibetans.
Xuanzong fled to Sichuan during the war, and Yang Guifei and Yang Guozhong, who attempted to flee with him, were killed by the Imperial bodyguard for their perceived part in the Emperor's weakness and loss of control.
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 Emperor Xuanzong of Tang Summary
T'ang Hsüan-tsung (685-762) was the seventh emperor of the T'ang dynasty.
Emperor Tang Xuanzong (唐玄宗) (September 8, 685 - May 3, 762), born Li Longji (李隆基), was the sixth emperor of the Tang dynasty of China, reigning from 712 to 756.
Xuanzong fled to Sichuan during the war, and Yang Guifei and Yang Guozhong, who attempted to flee with him, were killed by the Imperial army for their perceived part in the Emperor's weakness and loss of control.
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 The Sui, Tang and Song Dynasties
Xuanzong came to power at the age of 28 and was to remain in power forty-four years.
The last three Tang emperors (from 873 to 907) were the puppets of eunuchs, and to the Chinese people it seemed that the Tang dynasty had lost the mandate of heaven.
In 960, amid the chaos in China, troops of the commander of the palace guard at the new capital at Kaifeng, surrounded him and demanded that he become emperor.
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 Emperor Xuanzong
Emperor Xuanzong of the Tang Dynasty is most famous for the period of his life during the An Lushan Rebellion, which appears to be very similar to a soap opera.
Although China’s situation appeared to be improving under Xuanzong’s rule, the An Lushan Rebellion illustrates the poor state of the empire.
Emperor Xuanzong was blinded by his love for a woman which ultimately caused him to lose his empire and sent China into a period fighting to regain its land.
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 Chinese History - Tang Dynasty 唐 event history (www.chinaknowledge.de)
While the financial reforms were not deep enough to save the state treasury from permanent leaking, the changes whithin the military system imposed a financial burden on the finances and caused the emergence of quasi-independent regional governors, as the military commissioners had the full military and civil authority, including finances and taxation of their region.
The neighbors of the Tang empire were the Turks (Tujue 突厥), Uighurs (Huihe 回紇, later Huigu 回鶻), the Tibetian empire of Tubo 吐藩 (often read Tufan), the kingdom of Nanzhao 南詔, and the northeastern peoples of Qidan 契丹 (Khitan) and Mohe 靺鞨 (Malgal) as well as the three Korean kingdoms and Bohai 渤海 (Parhae).
Third, China had lost her Western regions to the Tibetians and to the Uighurs that had advanced into these areas during the years of the rebellion.
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 Tang Dynasty in Xian, China  -  Travel Photos by Galen R Frysinger, Sheboygan, Wisconsin
The Tang Dynasty (唐朝 Hanyu Pinyin táng cháo; 618-907) followed the Sui Dynasty and preceded the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms Period in China.
The Tang Dynasty, with its capital at Chang'an (modern day suburb of Xi'an), the most populous city in the world at the time, is regarded by historians as a high point in Chinese civilization — equal, or even superior, to the Han period.
Emperor Tang Xuan Zong brought China to its golden age and Tang influences reached all the way to Japan and Korea in the east, Vietnam in the south and central and western Asia in the west.
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 Tang Political History - The Tang Dynasty (618-907) - Imperial China - History - China - Asia
The third Tang ruler, Emperor Gaozong (646-683), was sickly and a weak monarch, and his consort Empress Wu soon dominated the court.
Xuanzong had to flee the capital, and the troops who accompanied the emperor forced him to have Yang Guifei executed.
The rebellion of An Lushan was devastating to the Tang.
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 China Institute Programs for Educators
The Tang dynasty rose to power after China had been divided for almost four centuries, from the fall of the Han dynasty to the reunification of China by the Sui (see Chronology of the Traditional Chinese Dynasties).
The Tang was an extremely cosmopolitan age, one in which China had numerous connections with the rest of the Eurasian world.
China's native religion arose at the end of the Han dynasty in the late second century CE.
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 China: National Geographic World Music   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
China is the home of one of the oldest civilizations in the world, and is also home to the earliest musical scale in recorded human history.
Major principalities in China competed to attract artists, scholars, diplomats, and engineers – and, of course, musicians to adorn their courts.
With prolonged Western contact in the 18th, 19th and 20th centuries, China was exposed to many new forms of music, and while many foreign forms have found a niche there, the old classical forms still persist alongside them.
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 Tang Xuanzong
Tang Xuanzong`s kaiserdom was stabilized and the country entered a 40-year-odd prosperity.
The Tang Empire presented a scene of general prosperity in which people lived and worked in such peace and contentment that no one would take any articles left by the wayside and doors were not bolted at night.
Xuanzong had no choice but to watch his favorite woman kill herself at the slopes of Mawei village.
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Imperial china begins with the founding of the Qin dynasty in 221 B.C. (Qin, pronounced "chin," is the derivation of the English word "China").
The Tang dynasty (A.D. 618-907) was a period of territorial expansion (the Tang regained much of the territory lost since the Han) and cultural exuberance.
The Tang capital at Chang'an (Xi'an) became one of the largest cities in the world, home to a cosmopolitan population that included numerous foreigners.
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 China History Forum, chinese history forum > Comparing post-crisis Han and Tang
The Tang dynasty also got interrupted briefly by Empress Wu ZeTian who was the sole Zhou monarch for 15 years before power was return to her sons who restored the Tang Dynasty.
Mar 31 2005, 02:53 AM Tang eunuchs first became powerful during the suppression of the An-Shi Rebellion, with the likes of Li Fuguo and Yu Chao'en being the favourites of Suzong and Daizong respectively, and eventually becoming so domineering that the emperor had to have them killed.
And since the officials in the Tang court later were split by factional fighting, the eunuchs became the only regular fixture of the court and the ones who had the most influence on the emperor.
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 Tang and Song China
the Duke of Tang, founder of the new dynasty.
The Tang continued to support and patronize the growth of Buddhism in China at the expense of the Confucian scholar-gentry.
The military was subordinated to the civilian administrators of the scholar-gentry, leaving the dynasty vulnerable to nomadic dynasties on the frontier.
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 Xuanzong - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Xuanzong can be the name of the following Chinese emperors:
Emperor Xuanzong of Tang China (685–762; reign: 712–756)
Emperor Xuanzong II of Tang China (810–859; reign: 846–859)
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 AH 370/EA 355 Arts of China: #7 The Sui and Tang Dynasties
The Buddhist establishment thrived until the devastating persecution of all foreign religions in 845 caused a majority of monasteries and their art to be destroyed, although religious institutions eventually recovered.
The later Tang was a time of weakened central power and de facto control by regional warlords.
Ceramics include "three-color glazed" (sancai) earthenware utensils and figures (mingqi) expressly made for burial in tombs; further development of greenish-glazed stonewares called "celadons"; and a white ware which is the first true porcelain.
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 Tang Dynasty Decline Reasons, China Tang Dynasty, Ancient Chinese History
This proved to be the turning point for the Tang Dynasty and brought it to the brink of its eventual downfall.
The Tang emperors were obliged to pay a high price for their loyalty: The Jie Du Shi were allowed to establish their own troops, to collect taxes.
During the late period of Emperor Xuanzong, the Eunuch Gao Lishi was favored by the emperor.
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 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.
Tang said to Xueyantuo that Turks would control south of the desert while Xueyantuo was to control north of the desert.
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'.
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 Festival of China
Nowadays, most people in China's rural areas still hold to these traditional celebrations, However, as the pace of life continues to quicken in the cities, urban residents have taken up new ways to celebrate the Chinese traditional New Year.
In an effort to reduce this expense, Emperor Xuanzong of the Tang Dynasty declared in 732 AD that respects would be formally paid at the tombs of ancestors only on the day of Qingming.This is the custom that continues to date.
China is starting to adopt Christmas celebrations especially in major cities where Christmas festivities are becoming more popular year by year.
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 Da Zuorong - China-related Topics DA-DD - China-Related Topics
Then he reconciled himself with the Tang when Emperor Zhongzong of the TangEmperor Zhongzong was restored to the throne.
The Old Book of the Tang says that Da Zuorong was of the the Goguryeo kind (高麗別種), while the New Book of the Tang states that he is "from the Sumo Mohe region of the former realm of Goguryeo." New Chinese historians argue that Sumo Mohe is not a region, but an ethnic non-Korean tribe.
In the confusion of the Khitan attack against the Tang DynastyTang (Zhou) in 696, the leaders Geolgeol Jung sang and Qisi Piyu saught independence.
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 Tang Dance Show
Tang Dynasty dance and music, which absorbed the best parts of previous dynasties, minority groups and even foreign countries, embodied the glory and flourish of Tang Dynasty (618-907).
It is said that this is the most famous dance during the Tang Dynasty and was adopted by a dream of Emperor Xuanzong.
The second emperor of the Tang Dynasty Li Shimin, who was titled King Qin before he got the throne, was a great general.
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 China, 500-1000 A.D. | Timeline of Art History | The Metropolitan Museum of Art   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
Merchants and visitors from West, South, Southeast, and East Asia arrive frequently, and Tang China functions as the epicenter of an international culture that is also reflected in the visual arts of Korea and Japan.
The reign of Emperor Xuanzong is generally regarded as a classic period of Chinese culture characterized by good government and the flourishing of poetry, music, and calligraphy.
China is controlled by successive short-lived kingdoms in the north and overlapping rulers in the south after the dissolution of the Tang empire.
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 Ethics of China 7 BC To 1279 by Sanderson Beck
As the Sui empire was disintegrating, Yang Di fled to southern China, where he was assassinated in his bath by a descendant of the Yuwen family and the son of his general Yuwen Shu in 618.
Tang armies led by the Emperor's sons, Li Shimin in the south and eastern plain and crown prince Jiancheng in the northwest, offered amnesty and put down most of the resistance by 624.
Xuanzong managed to increase the number of families on the tax registers, gave more control to local military commanders, increased the number of horses by improving government stud farms, and repaired canals to facilitate grain transport from the south to northern armies.
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