Ten Ancient Chinese Women Warriors - Tang Sai'er
Tang Saier led a peasant uprising during the Ming Dynasty (1368-1644). She was motivated by desire to ease the suffering of the people under the rule of early Ming Emperor Cheng Zu...
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Fujiwara Family- Heian Japan
Fujiwara Family, dynastic family that, by shrewd intermarriage and diplomacy, dominated the Japanese imperial government from the 9th to the 12th century and it sophisticated Court...
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JAPANESE HAIKU
A traditional Japanese haiku is a three-line poem with seventeen syllables, written in a 5/7/5 syllable count. Often focusing on images from nature, haiku emphasizes simplicity, intensity, and directness of expression...
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Ancient China : Meng Haoran
Meng Haoran (689/691–740) was a major Tang dynasty poet, and a somewhat older contemporary of Wang Wei, Li Bai and Du Fu. Despite his brief pursuit of an official career, Meng Haoran...
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China: Tumu Crisis and the Ming Mongols
The Oirat leader Esen Tayisi launched an invasion into Ming China in July 1449. The chief eunuch Wang Zhen encouraged the Zhengtong Emperor (r. 1435–49) to lead a force personally to face the Oirats...
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Ancient China - The Romance of the Western Chamber
The story in The Romance of the Western Chamber by Wang Shifu of the Yuan Dynasty (1271-1368) directly came from the prose romance The Story of Yingying by Yuan Shen of the Tang Dynasty (618-907).
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Ancient China - Trade in the Silk Road
Silk was generally the favorite export of China's empires that traded with western countries along the Silk Road from the Han Dynasty (206 BC – 220 AD) onwards. But there were other important exports as well...
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Heian Japan - Fujiwara Family
Fujiwara Family, dynastic family that, by shrewd intermarriage and diplomacy, dominated the Japanese imperial government from the 9th to the 12th century.
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Japan’s unique features – The art of Utagawa Kuniyoshi
Utagawa Kuniyoshi (January 1, 1798[2] – April 14, 1861) was one of the last great masters of the Japanese ukiyo-e style of woodblock prints and painting. He was a member of the Utagawa school.
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Ancient China - The Romance of the Western Chamber
The story in The Romance of the Western Chamber by Wang Shifu of the Yuan Dynasty (1271-1368) directly came from the prose romance The Story of Yingying by Yuan Shen of the Tang Dynasty (618-907)...
https://t.co/yGQchkOGI6