HIST10 World Civ
Lect. # 14

China's Cosmopolitan Age

I. Introduction
         A. Idealized Chinese World View & the West
                • Cosmopolitan China:  Tang and Song Dynasties
                • Mandate of Heaven
                          - Tributary Relations
                          - Qin dynasty (221 BCE)
                          - Han dynasty (206 BCE - 220 CE)

II. Tang Dynasty (618-907) [map]

         A. "Non-native Empire"
                • Not ethnically Chinese
                • Tuoba Xianbei

         B. Chang'an (Xian) - map
                • City Walls
                          - 27 square miles
                          - layout non-Confucian
                          - cosmological
                          - geometrical
                          - control

                • Cosmopolitanism
                          - Persians, Uighurs, Sogdians, Arabs, Jews, Indians, Koreans, Tibetans, Malays, Japanese

                • Officials
                          - 'warming the exam papers'
 
         C.  Tang Dynasty and Foreign Ideas
                • Openness
                          - Nestorian Christianity
                • Buddhism in China
                          - Xuanzang
                                 1. Nalanda Monastery
                          - Big Wild Goose Pagoda

         D. Fall of the Tang
 
IV. Conclusion
         A. Why ask Why?
                •  China not isolated