1. Inner and East Asia

2. Early Tang Empire Tang Origins Buddhism and the Tang Empire
Return of Imperial Bureaucracy
To Chang’an by Land and Sea
Trade and Cultural Exchange

3. End of the Tang Empire Revival of Confucianism jinshi
Upheavals and Repression ( )
The End of the Tang ( )
Internal problems
Regional challenges
A preeminent scholar, classicist and a first-rate analytic and synthetic thinker, Zhu Xi (Chu Hsi) created the supreme synthesis of Song-Ming dynasty ( CE) Neo-Confucianism.

4. The Emergence of East Asia, to 1200
The Liao and Jin Challenge
Song Industries
Economy and Society in Song China
Civilians in charge
Civil service exam
Moveable type
Population growth
Credit system
Privatization
Women lose status
Failure at Reform

5. New Kingdoms in East Asia: Korea
Most influenced by China
109 BCE Chinese colonies established
Three Kingdoms
Koguryo
Silla
Paekche
Chinese connections:
Buddhism
Examination System
Writing
Bureaucracy
Tang and Silla alliance
Independent Silla
Tribute to China

6. New Kingdoms in East Asia: Korea
Korean aristocrats
Buddhism preferred over Confucianism
Pottery
Elite dominated social and political life
Social structure
Collapse of Silla and Koryo
Silla Buddha triad in 7th century, Kyongju (from Buddhist Sculpture of Korea)

7. New Kingdoms in East Asia: Japan
Taika reforms
Court etiquette
Diplomacy
Confucianism
Reforms unpopular with
Aristocratic families
Buddhist Monks
Response to resistance
Emperors gave power to aristocrats

8. New Kingdoms in East Asia: Japan
Development of Feudalism
9th c. CE Fujiwara family dominates
Buddhist and Imperial Court Alliance
Elite monopolize land and labor in countryside
Samurai emerge
Code of conduct
No free peasantry
Date Masamune, The One-Eyed Dragon, Samurai General

9. New Kingdoms in East Asia: Japan
Collapse of Tang 
Chinese model less appropriate
Daimyos emerge
300 private states
Modern conflict
Large peasant armies
Boost to the economy
New Wealthy Commercial Class Emerges

10. New Kingdoms in East Asia: Vietnam
China wanted to control rice production
At first Viet elite cooperated
Productive Agriculture
Military Advantage

11. New Kingdoms in East Asia: Vietnam
Viet people did not react positively to Chinese
Culture significantly different
Peasant rebellions
Vietnamese Independence
Limits of Chinese Influence
Vietnam vulnerable to Foreign invasion
When a Chinese general murdered a rebellious Vietnamese nobleman and raped his widow, the widow, Trung Trac, and her sister, Trung Nhi, roused the local lords and led a rebellion against the Chinese. They were so successful that they carved out an independent kingdom of which they were made queens.