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Chapter 13 Vocab.
China
Term | Definition |
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Yangdi | Second member of Sui dynasty; murdered his father to gain throne; restored Confucian examination system; responsible for construction of Chinese canal system; assassinated in 618 |
Li Yuan | Also known as Duke of Tang; minister for Yangdi; tool over empire following the assassination of Yangdi; first emperor of Tang dynasty; took imperial title of Gaozu |
Chang'an | Capital of Tang dynasty; population of 2 million, larger than any other city in the world at the time. |
Ministry of Rites | Administrated examinations to students from Chinese government schools or those recommended by distinguished by scholars |
jinshi | Title granted to students who passed the most difficult Chinese examination on all Chinese literature; became immediate dignitaries and eligible for high office. |
Pure land Buddhism | Emphasized salvationist aspects of Chinese Buddhism; popular among the masses of Chinese society |
Chan Buddhism | Known as Zen in Japan; stressed meditation and appreciation of natural and artistic beauty; popular with member of elite Chinese society. |
Zen Buddhism | Known as Chan Buddhism in China; stressed meditation and appreciation of natural and artistic beauty. |
Empress Wu | Tang ruler 690-750 c.e in China; supported Buddist establishment; tried to elevate Buddhism to state religion; had multistory statues of Buddha created. |
Wuzong | Chinese emperor of Tang dynasty who openly persecuted Buddhism by destroying monasteries in 840s; reduced influence of Chinese Buddhism in favor of Confucian ideology. |
Xuanzong | Leading Chinese emperor of the Tang dynasty who reigned from 713 to 755, although he encouraged overexpansion. |
Yang Guifei | Royal concubine during reign of Xuanzong; introduction of her relatives into royal administration led to revolt. |
Zhao Kuanguin | Founder of Song dynasty; originally a general following the fall of Tang; took title of Taizu; failed to overcome northern Liao dynasty that remained independent. |
Liao dynasty | Founded in 907 by nomadic Khitan peoples from Manchuria; maintained independence from Song dynasty in China |
Khitians | Nomadic peoples of Machuria; militarily superior to Song dynasty China but influence by Chinese culture; forced humiliating treaties in Song China in 11th century |
Zhu Xi | Most prominent of neo-Confucian scholars during the Song Dynasty in China; stressed importance of applying philosophical principles to everyday life and action. |
Tangut | Rulers of Xi Xia Kingdom of northwest China; one of regional kingdoms during the period of southern Song; conquered by mongols in 1226 |
Xi Xia | Kingdom of Tangut people, north of Song kingdom, in mid-11th century; collected tribute that drained Song resources and burdened Chinese peasantry |
Wang Anshi | Confician scholar and chief minister of a Song emperor in 1070s; introduced sweeping reforms based in Legalists; advocated greater state intervention in society. |
Jurchens | Founder of the Jin kingdom that succeeded the Liao in northern China; annexed most of the Yellow River basin and forced Song to flee to south |
Jin | Kingdom north of the Song Empire; established by Jurchens in 1115 after overthrowing Liao dynasty; ended in 1234 |
Southern Song | Rump state of Song dynasty from 1127 to 1279; carved out of the much larger domains ruled by the Tang and northern Song; culturally one of the most glorious reign in Chinese history. |
Grand Canal | Built in 7th century during reign of Yangdi during sui dynasty; designed to link the original centers of Chinese civilization on the north China plain with the Yangtze river basin to the south; nearly 1200 miles long |
Junks | Chinese ships equipped with watertight bulkheads, sternpost rudder, compasses, and bamboo fenders; dominant force in Asian seas east of the Malayan peninsula |
Flying money | Chinese credit instrument that provided credit vouchers to merchants to be redeemed at the end of the voyage; reduced danger of robbery; early form of currency. |
Footbinding | Practice in Chinese society of mutilation women's feet in order to make them smaller; produced pain and restricted women's movement; made it easier to confine women to household. |
Li Bo | Most famous poet of the Tang era; blended images of the mundane world with philosophical musings. The name is alternately spelled Li Bo and Li Bai |