HIST 010 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Giant Wild Goose Pagoda, Feng Shui, Qin Dynasty
hist10 // week 9
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Chang'an (Xi'an)
Xuanzang
Silk Road
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 → super big
- layout non-Confucian → “non-chinese,” streets 200 ft wide for commerce, feng shui
- 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 → they loved chairs and tests
• Openness
- Nestorian Christianity
• Buddhism in China
- Xuanzang
1. Nalanda Monastery
- Big Wild Goose Pagoda
• Silk Road
D. Fall of the Tang → xenophobia and religious intolerance
IV. Conclusion
A. Why ask Why?
• China not isolated
