Who were the Sogdians, the enigmatic silk road merchants?
Renowned for their sense of commerce and diplomacy along the Silk Road from Antiquity to the High Middle Ages, the Sogdians ...
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The Church Under the Tang Dynasty: A Forgotten Outpost of Christianity
They looked to Tang Dynasty rulers in order to use their experiences ... In the capital city of Chang’an, members of various ...
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The Guimet Museum in Paris sheds new light on Tang China's multicultural civilization
Statue of a 'foreign groom,' Tang dynasty (618-907), in the exhibition ... Indeed, work carried out in 2006 to build the Xi'an Metro (Chang'an, capital of the empire in the Tang era), followed ...
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Epitaph of Tang Dynasty ‘PM’ Zhangsun Wuji makes public debut
Among those displays, a Tang Dynasty (618-907) epitaph can be viewed by the public for the first time since its excavation in 1997. The epitaph, engraved on a stone stele, is a national first ...
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China’s Shakespeare - Du Fu and his poetry
He was well known in his day, and made friends with other poets such as Li Bai, another famous poet in the Tang dynasty. As a member of the elite in society he lived in the capital at Chang’an ...