Why We Love the Tang Dynasty

By China PlusHistory

Why We Love the Tang Dynasty episodes

December 14, 2020 Ep20 Loose Ends
Highlighting some of the amazing achievements and highlights of the Tang Dynasty, and considering its eventual decline and fall.
13 min
December 10, 2020 Ep19 Tang City Life
The home of the Tang – the great city of Chang’an, and how it helped the Tang become so prosperous.
13 min
December 07, 2020 Ep18 Portraits of Landscapes
Surveying the landscape of the Tang Dynasty, to discover how its artists charted the changes that they saw about them.
13 min
December 03, 2020 Ep17 Painting the Tang
The Tang preference for realism in their paintings.
13 min
November 30, 2020 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.
13 min
November 26, 2020 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.
13 min
November 23, 2020 Ep14 Tang Music Turns Inwards
How the decline and eventual fall of the Dynasty was reflected in its music.
13 min
November 19, 2020 Ep13 Tang Music in Action
How guiding imperial hands can influence the development of the arts for generations to come.
13 min
November 16, 2020 Ep12 The Tang Musical Extravaganzas
The changing musical tastes of the Tang Dynasty, which at one point would have put Hollywood musicals to shame.
14 min
November 12, 2020 Ep11 Tang Poetry Technique
Understanding the lives of the Tang poets great and small, and learning how life was not always glamorous and successful.
13 min

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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…