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Looking at the life and legacy of Emperor Yang (569–618) of the brief Sui dynasty in a new light, this book presents a compelling case for his importance to Chinese history. Author Victor Cunrui Xiong utilizes traditional scholarship and secondary literature from China, Japan, and the West to go beyond the common perception of Emperor Yang as merely a profligate tyrant. Xiong accepts neither the traditional verdict against Emperor Yang nor the apologist effort to revise it, and instead offers a reassessment of Emperor Yang by exploring the larger political, economic, military, religious, and diplomatic contexts of Sui society. This reconstruction of the life of Emperor Yang reveals an astute visionary with literary, administrative, and reformist accomplishments. While a series of strategic blunders resulting from the darker side of his personality led to the collapse of the socioeconomic order and to his own death, the Sui legacy that Emperor Yang left behind lived on to provide the foundation for the rise of the Tang dynasty, the pinnacle of medieval Chinese civilization.

Weights and Measures
Dynastic Powers of the Han-Tang Period
Acknowledgments

Part I. From Prince to Sovereign

Introduction

1. The Making of a Crown Prince

2. Yangdi and His Reign

3. The Collapse of the Sui

Part II. Yangdi and His Empire

4. Luoyang and the Grand Canal

5. The Palace Network

6. The Bureaucracy

7. The Educational, Ritual and Legal Institutions

8. Religions

9. Economic Order

10. Foreign Policy

11. Epilogue

Appendix 1
Appendix 2
Chronology of Sui Yangdi (569–618)

Notes
Bibliography
Index

Sujets

History of Asia

Asia

China

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Publié par	State University of New York Press
Date de parution	01 février 2012
Nombre de lectures	0
EAN13	9780791482681
Langue	English
Poids de l'ouvrage	10 Mo

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Emperor Yang of the Sui Dynasty

SUNY Series in Chinese Philosophy and Culture

Roger T. Ames, editor

Emperor Yang of the Sui Dynasty

His Life, Times, and Legacy

Victor Cunrui Xiong

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Xiong, Victor Cunrui. Emperor Yang of the Sui dynasty : his life, times, and legacy / Victor Cunrui Xiong. p. cm.—(SUNY series in Chinese philosophy and culture) ISBN 0-7914-6587-X (hardcover : alk. paper) 1. Sui Yangdi, Emperor of China, 569-618. 2. China—History—Sui dynasty, 581-618. 3. China—Kings and rulers—Biography. I. Title. II. Series.

DS749.29.S85X56 2005 951¢.016¢092—dc22

2004027813

ISBN-13: 978-0-7914-6587-5 (hardcover: alk. paper)

Contents

Weights and Measures Dynastic Powers of the Han-Tang Period Acknowledgments

Part I.

From Prince to Sovereign Introduction 1. The Making of a Crown Prince 2. Yangdi and His Reign 3. The Collapse of the Sui

Part II. Yangdi and His Empire 4. Luoyang and the Grand Canal 5. The Palace Network 6. The Bureaucracy 7. The Educational, Ritual and Legal Institutions 8. Religions 9. Economic Order 10. Foreign Policy 11. Epilogue

Appendix 1 Appendix 2

Chronology of Sui Yangdi (569–618) Notes Bibliography

Index

ix xi xiii

1 3 9 29 51

73 75 95 107 123 143 173 197 221

235 249

253 263 307

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1.1 1.2

2.1

3.1

4.1 4.2 4.3

4.4

4.5 5.1 5.2

5.3 8.1 10.1 10.2 10.3

Maps and Tables

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China in 572 The conquest of Chen, 589. (After Wang Zhongluo 1988–1990, 6.) Key places visited by Yangdi on his 607 tour. (Based on Tan Qixiang 1982–1987, vol. 5, 17–18) Late Sui rebellion. (Based on Wang Zhongluo 1988–1990, 89) Sui Luoyang Sui Daxingcheng The Grand Canal. (Based on Ma Zhenglin 1986, 2; Balazs 1953, 212) Sui Tongji Canal (the Si River route). (After Liu Xiwei 1986, 170) Han Conduit. (After Pan Yong 1987) Major palaces under Sui Yangdi Schematic Map of the Sui Western Park. (AfterHNZ “Sui Shanglin Xiyuan tu,” 199) Yangzhou in Tang Times. (After Jiang Zhongyi 1990, 37) Religious institutions of Daxingcheng Sui China and its neighbors, 612 Sui China and the Western Regions Sui China and the Korean Peninsula

vii

52 80 83

88 91 96

99 103 158 198 205 215

Key central government ofﬁces under the Sui and Early Tang Garrison commands and guards under the Sui Chief ministers under Wendi (581–604) Chief ministerial appointments under Wendi De facto chief ministerial appointments under Wendi Presidents of the Six Boards under Wendi (581–604) Chief ministers under Yangdi (604–618) De facto chief ministerial appointments under Yangdi Presidents of the Six Boards under Yangdi (604–618)

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236 238 239 241 242 243 245 247 248

160 169

8.1 8.2 8.3

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9

Maps and Tables

187

viii

1 2

146 149

Louguan patriarchs, to Early Tang Patriarchs of the Shangqing school, from inception to Tang Meritorious works for Buddhism under Wendi (W) and Yangdi (Y ) Buddhist monasteries in Daxingcheng abolished by Yangdi Laborers used for major public works projects under Yangdi (604–618)

250 251

8.4 9.1

Appendix 2 Tables

The twoMaoyuecampaigns under the Sui Populations: late sixth to early seventh centuries

Appendix 1 Tables

Length

Weights and Measures

1cun= 10cun=1chi 5chi=1bu(Tang) 6chi=1bu(Sui) 10chi=1zhang a 2zhang=1duan 4zhang=1pi 5zhang=1duan 360bu=1li(2160chi) 1li(1800chi)

Area

1mu=1 squarebu¥240 100mu=1qing

Capacity

1sheng= 10sheng=1dou 10dou=1shi/hu

pre-607

2.951 cm 29.51 cm

1.7706 m 2.951 m 5.902 m 11.8 m 14.76 m 0.637 km

pre-607

2 752.4 m 2 75,240 m

pre-607

594.4 ml 5.944 l 59.44 l

Sui

post-607

2.355 cm 23.55 cm

1.413 m 2.355 m 4.71 m 9.42 m 11.78 m 0.509 km

post-607

2 479.17 m 2 47,917 m

post-607

198.1 ml 1.981 l 19.81 l

Tang

3.11 cm 31.1 cm 1.555 m

3.11 m 6.22 m 12.44 m 15.55 m

0.56 km

Tang

2 580.33 m 2 58,033 m

Tang

594.4 ml 5.944 l 59.44 l

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