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9780791465882

Emperor Yang of the Sui Dynasty: His Life, Times, And Legacy

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  • ISBN13:

    9780791465882

  • ISBN10:

    0791465888

  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 2006-06-01
  • Publisher: State Univ of New York Pr

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Looking at the life and legacy of Emperor Yang (569-618) of the brief Sui dynasty in a new light, this book presents a compelling case for his importance to Chinese history. Author Victor Cunrui Xiong utilizes traditional scholarship and secondary literature from China, Japan, and the West to go beyond the common perception of Emperor Yang as merely a profligate tyrant. Xiong accepts neither the traditional verdict against Emperor Yang nor the apologist effort to revise it, and instead offers a reassessment of Emperor Yang by exploring the larger political, economic, military, religious, and diplomatic contexts of Sui society. This reconstruction of the life of Emperor Yang reveals an astute visionary with literary, administrative, and reformist accomplishments. While a series of strategic blunders resulting from the darker side of his personality led to the collapse of the socioeconomic order and to his own death, the Sui legacy that Emperor Yang left behind lived on to provide the foundation for the rise of the Tang dynasty, the pinnacle of medieval Chinese civilization. Book jacket.

Author Biography

Victor Cunrui Xiong is Professor of History at Western Michigan University

Table of Contents

Weights and Measures ix
Dynastic Powers of the Han-Tang Period xi
Acknowledgments xiii
Part I. From Prince to Sovereign 1(72)
Introduction
3(70)
1. The Making of a Crown Prince
9(20)
2. Yangdi and His Reign
29(22)
3. The Collapse of the Sui
51(22)
Part II. Yangdi and His Empire 73(162)
4. Luoyang and the Grand Canal
75(20)
5. The Palace Network
95(12)
6. The Bureaucracy
107(16)
7. The Educational, Ritual and Legal Institutions
123(20)
8. Religions
143(30)
9. Economic Order
173(24)
10. Foreign Policy
197(24)
11. Epilogue
221(14)
Appendix 1 235(14)
Appendix 2 249(4)
Chronology of Sui Yangdi (569-618) 253(10)
Notes 263(44)
Bibliography 307(20)
Index 327

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