1. 13 Reunification and Renaissance in Chinese Civilizations:
The Era of the Tang and Song Dynasties
13.1 analysis

2. Chapter Overview Rebuilding the Imperial Edifice in the Sui-Tang Era
Tang Decline and the Rise of the Song
Tang and Song Prosperity: The Basis of a Golden Age

3. Key Concepts 13.1 Wendi Barbarian alliance Core unification
Scholar gentry – status
Tax policies
Granaries and social peace
Yandi
Aristocrats and nomadic lords v scholars?
Yandi = overreach?

4. Key Concepts 13.1 - #2 Li Yaun Barbarian problem solution?
Rebuilding the Pervasive Bureaucracy?
Aristocrats v Bureaucrats?
Meritocracy/ Ministry of Rites/jinshi
Who you know, not what you know?
Confucianism v Buddhism and Empress Wu.
Wuzong