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Showing 1 to 10 of 10 for “"Tang Dynasty"”.
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Dressing for the Times: Fashion in Tang Dynasty China (618-907)
During the Tang dynasty, an increased capacity for change created a new value system predicated on the accumulation of wealth and the obsolescence of things that is best understood as fashion. Increased wealth among Tang elites was paralleled by a greater investment in clothes, which imbued clothes …
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Xuanwumen Coup d'état
… but also laid the monumental foundation for the Tang dynasty (618-907). This piece weaves together musical elements to depict the multifaceted nature of human experience during moments of power shifts. For instance, the soprano overtone part of the violin expresses the bloodshed and cruelty …
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A Study of Shangshu Excerpts in Qunshu Zhiyao [The Governing Principles of Ancient China] 《群書治要·尚書選》考述
In the fifth year of Zhenguan貞觀period（AD 631） in Tang Dynasty, Wei Zheng魏徵 compiled the Qunshu Zhiyao群書治要with other scholars, where most of the selected documents are based on the old texts in the early Tang Dynasty. These manuscripts preserved precious documentation, some of which have lost today. …
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Character extraction from ancient Chinese stele using discrete cosine transform
… Sheng Jiao Xu, an ancient Chinese stele from the Tang dynasty of China. We will be applying computer aided bibliotics to compare the characters in Ji Zi Sheng Jiao Xu and ones in other texts. Thus, we will be extracting hundreds of characters from digitized ink-rubbings of Chinese steles. This …
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Foguangsi on Mount Wutai: Architecture of Politics and Religion
… the Buddha Hall, which was erected in the Tang dynasty (618-907 CE), was seen as the ideal of a “vigorous style” of its time, and an embodiment of an architectural achievement at the peak of Chinese civilization. However, after several initial reports, scholarship on the structure has for …
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Dawn of Spring for full orchestra
… the most famous ancient Chinese poets during the Tang dynasty. The poet described a lively picture of a spring morning in four sentences: I wake up at the dawn of spring/And hear the birds everywhere sing/As sounded the wind and rain overnight/I wonder how many blooms alight. The music comes from …
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Elegies for Empire: The Poetics of Memory in the Late Work of Du Fu (712-770)
… An Lushan rebellion (756-763), which transformed Tang Dynasty (618-906) politics and culture, Du Fu was among the first to write in the twilight of the Chinese medieval period. His most prescient anticipation of mid-Tang concerns was his restless preoccupation with memory and its mediations, which …
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Navigating the Smellscape of Medieval China
Smell mattered in medieval China. Through the sense of smell, people navigated the natural and social world, structured human-divine relationships. Medieval Chinese texts are replete with references to smells of people, things, and places. Mediated through the minds of their recorders, olfactory …