CHIN 50 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Huangzhou District, Han Yu, Huang Chao
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Emperor-chancellery (personnel, revenue), department of state affair (rites and war), central secretariat (punishment and works) Emperor: absolute power; century secretary: draft edict and principles; treasury: read and approve the edict; administer the edict. Li shiming: son of li yuan, killed his brother. Most of them live in chang"an (cid:708)xian-the center of tang(cid:709: changan: Since western zhou: capital for 13 dynasties; declined after tang; beijing and. Nanjing became the new center; emperor stayed in empire city. Foreign merchants and diplomats; interstate students from japan, korea and other neighboring states, exotic goods and culture from the west. The east terminal of silk road: xuanzang"s pilgrimage to india: Brave monk who travel to india to seek sutra and found obscurity of sutra. To seek for the correct translation he traveled to india to get the real sutra: the fall of tang. Huang chao rebellion 835-884 (the last strike for tang) Hymns, greater odes, lesser odes (performed during ceremony)
