Why We Love the Tang Dynasty
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Why We Love the Tang Dynasty

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Exploring the history and charm of the Tang Dynasty, and attempting to discover how, at its height, it became possibly the most prosperous, inter-connected and innovative country in the world, with a rich and influential legacy that survives even to this day.

Exploring the history and charm of the Tang Dynasty, and attempting to discover how, at its height, it became possibly the most prosperous, inter-connected and innovative country in the world, with a rich and influential legacy that survives even to this day.

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Ep20 Loose Ends

Highlighting some of the amazing achievements and highlights of the Tang Dynasty, and considering its eventual decline and fall.
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12:40

Ep19 Tang City Life

The home of the Tang – the great city of Chang’an, and how it helped the Tang become so prosperous.
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12:32

Ep18 Portraits of Landscapes

Surveying the landscape of the Tang Dynasty, to discover how it’s artists charted the changes that they saw about them.
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12:19

Ep17 Painting the Tang

The Tang preference for realism in their paintings.
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12:37

Ep16 The Calligraphic Stars of the Tang

A look at the amazing calligraphy of the Tang which is seen as a highlight of this fabulous dynasty.
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12:36

Ep15 The Rise and Rise of Buddhism in Tang China

The role of Buddhism on the development of China during the Tang Dynasty, and the key figures who raised this religion to new heights.
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12:26

Ep14 Tang Music Turns Inwards

How the decline and eventual fall of the Dynasty was reflected in its music.
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12:47

Ep13 Tang Music in Action

How guiding imperial hands to can influence the development of the arts for generations to come.
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12:35

Ep13 Tang Music in Action

How guiding imperial hands can influence the development of the arts for generations to come.
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12:32

Ep12 The Tang Musical Extravaganzas

The changing musical tastes of the Tang Dynasty, which at one point would have put Hollywood musicals to shame.
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13:03

Ep11 Tang Poetry Technique

Understanding the lives of the Tang poets great and small, and learning how life was not always glamorous and successful.
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12:29

Ep10 The Poetry of the Tang

Introducing the poetry of the Tang, and discovering how it evolved over the three hundred year life of the Dynasty.
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13:00

Ep9 The Assimilation of the Hu

Discovering how the great fusion of peoples during the Tang Dynasty set the scene for modern China’s ethnic and cultural diversity.
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12:35

Ep8 The Importance of Migrants

How the Tang Dynasty not only attracted people from countries far and wide to settle, but also how the dynasty drew on those countries for ideas, commodities and friendship.
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12:26

Ep7 The Imitation Game

How the Japanese were so obsessed with the success of the Tang Dynasty they shipped they culture back home on an industrial scale.
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12:41

Ep6 Japan learns from the Tang Masters

How the Tang Dynasty became the go-to place for Japanese diplomats and students eager to understand its success.
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12:33

Ep5 Love, Cherish, Honour and Obey

Love, Marriage and Divorce in the time of the Tang.
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12:25

Ep4 The Power Behind the Painted Face

Introducing the women of the Tang Dynasty, and how their social status governed their fortune and fate.
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12:35

Ep3 How the Tang Dynasty Was Run

How the Tang built a strong bureaucracy to govern a massive state.
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12:12

Ep2 The Power Revolution

Exploring how the vibrant and colorful Tang Dynasty began to create the building blocks for the prosperity and cultural diversity of generations to come.
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12:31
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