UDC 94(510)"618/907"1.02 Review
 
 
China Under the Reign of Tang Dynasty (618-907)
 
Maja LavračPh.D., Associate ProfessorUniversity of Ljubljana, Faculty of Arts, Department of Asian and African Studies, Chair for SinologyAškerčeva 2, SI - 1000 Ljubljana, Sloveniae-mail: maja.lavrac@guest.arnes.si
 
Synopsis:The reign of the famous and powerful Tang dynasty (618-907), known as the apogee of the Chinese civilization with a two thousand years long and exceptionally rich cultural heritage, is considered one of the most signifcant periods in the long and turbulent history of China. It is beyond all doubt renowned for being a golden age of Chinese arts when under the emperor's patronage poetry, painting and calligraphy reached the zenith, and were in full bloom. This was also an era of material well-being, institutional development as well as new philosophical schools and religions. The expansion of Han people culminated, and the Chinese empire extended to Korea in the east, to Cambodia in the south, and to the kingdom of Persia in the west. China under the reign of Tang dynasty was surely the most powerful, the richest and in many aspects the most advanced country in the world.
Key words:Chinese empire, Tang dynasty, Tai zong, Wu Zetian, Xuan zong, Yang Guifei, An Lushan's rebellion, military governors, eunuchs, peasant uprisings.
 
Studia Historica SlovenicaHumanities and Social Studies ReviewMaribor, 8 (2008), No. 1, pp. 37-60, 25 notes, 4 pictures.Language: Original in English (Abstract in English and Slovene, Summary in Slovene).