Why We Love the Tang Dynasty

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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Episodes

Ep20 Loose Ends

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

Dec 14, 2020•13 min

Ep19 Tang City Life

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

Dec 10, 2020•13 min

Ep18 Portraits of Landscapes

Surveying the landscape of the Tang Dynasty, to discover how its artists charted the changes that they saw about them.

Dec 07, 2020•12 min

Ep17 Painting the Tang

The Tang preference for realism in their paintings.

Dec 03, 2020•13 min

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.

Nov 30, 2020•13 min

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.

Nov 26, 2020•12 min

Ep14 Tang Music Turns Inwards

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

Nov 23, 2020•13 min

Ep13 Tang Music in Action

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

Nov 19, 2020•13 min

Ep12 The Tang Musical Extravaganzas

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

Nov 16, 2020•13 min

Ep11 Tang Poetry Technique

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

Nov 12, 2020•13 min

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.

Nov 09, 2020•13 min

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.

Nov 05, 2020•13 min

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.

Nov 02, 2020•12 min

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.

Oct 29, 2020•13 min

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.

Oct 26, 2020•13 min

Ep5 Love, Cherish, Honour and Obey

Love, Marriage and Divorce in the time of the Tang.

Oct 22, 2020•12 min

Ep4 The Power Behind the Painted Face

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

Oct 19, 2020•13 min

Ep3 How the Tang Dynasty Was Run

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

Oct 15, 2020•12 min

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.

Oct 12, 2020•13 min

Ep1 Say Hello to the Tang

Introducing the Tang Dynasty - born of strife, but flowering into an amazing cosmopolitan and achieving society.

Oct 08, 2020•13 min

Introducing Why We Love the Tang Dynasty

Sep 29, 2020•30 sec

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