Travels of the Buddhist traveller Xuanzang (T'ang Dynasty, 630 AD) Xuanzang was a great Chinese scholar who lived in the 600s AD, under the T'ang dynasty. He was a Buddhist, [...]
A T'ang Dynasty official's house This is a poem by Bai Juyi, written in China about 800 AD, during the late T'ang Dynasty: There came an officer knocking by night [...]
About 800 AD, in the T'ang Dynasty, a poet named Bai Juyi wrote a poem called the Song of the Everlasting Sorrow. Bai Juyi tried to write poetry in simple ways that [...]
The tomb of Bai Juyi Who was Bai Juyi? Bai Juyi was born in China during the T'ang Dynasty, in 772 AD, just at the end of the great rebellion [...]
Emperor Wuzong Hsuan Tsung's son, the T'ang Emperor Suzong, asked a neighboring power, the Uighur Empire, to help him crush An Lu-shan's rebellion, and by 757 AD, thanks to the [...]
Empress Wu of the T'ang Dynasty Who was Wu Chao? Wu Chao was one of T'ai Tsung's girlfriends. After he died, she became his son's girlfriend too! The son's name [...]
T'ang Dynasty emperor T'ai Tsung, 626 AD Yangdi, the last ruler of the Sui Dynasty, was killed in 618 AD by his generals. The generals blamed him for the disastrous [...]
A T'ang Dynasty emperor In 220 AD, Han Dynasty China fell apart into three medium-sized kingdoms, so people call this the Three Kingdoms period. In 581 AD, a general named [...]
T'ang Dynasty cup (Musee Guimet, Paris) Who invented porcelain? About 700 AD in China, plain white porcelain pottery first begins to appear, like these cups and these bowls. What is [...]
T'ang dynasty dancing women - Musee Guimet, Paris Sculpture, which had really begun to develop during the Sui Dynasty, reached its height under the T'ang Dynasty. Sculptors emphasized graceful lines [...]
