“Ms Yang”
Tang Dynasty
- Great cultural flowering in this dynasty
- Sui reunited china in 589
- Missing to tang
- Poetry
- Capital is Chang’an
- A model for Nara and Kyoto
- China open: Japan, Korea and vietnam,Persia,West Asia
Unstable politics
- The tang dynasty looks like it almost fall
- Wu Zetian
- Establish her own dynasty
- Was the wife of the tang dynasty
- Place puppet figure on the dynasty and rules through them.
- She strengthen the empire
- Only Woman to reign as empress in Chinese history
- Men take over and deposed in coup and died soon after
- Tang dynasty restored
- Tang Xuan Zong
- Grandson of third emperor
- Struggle to get power
- Become emperor
- Was a good ruler
- Early part of the reign was vigourous
- An Lushan rebellion (755-763)
- Many causes: Military over expansion,Court politics
- Many blame Yang Guifei
- Devastates the empire
- Xuan Zong flles and is replaced by son
- Dynasty never fully recovers, long and slow decline
People of the time blame the women for everything. It is not Ms Yang’s fault.
As the emperor is fleeing, Yang Guefei was killed
Who is Yang GueFei?
- Great Beauty
- She was murdered by the emperor’s soldiers
- Ms Yang the image was very powerful in Japan
Life as a historical person
- Yang Yu Huan
- One of the four beauties in premodern china
- Tang Dynasty - Tang Xuan Zong (685-762)
- Killed during the anshi rebellion (755- 763
Her life as a trope:
- One of the four beauties in premodern chna
- Popular trope in artistic creations
- Well known in china and Japan
- Embodiment of complex symbolism
In china and other chinese speaking regions
- Short stories,theatre,poetry, paintings etc
- Modern times: Novels, tv drama and animations
In Japan:
- Mythology,tales,theater , poetry,novels and paintings
- Modern times: film,kabuki dance,manga , novels and Takarazuka musicals.
- Still an important cultural figure
- Many villages claim that her grave is in Japan and that she did not die in china but manage to fled to japan
Song of everlasting sorrow
- By BaiJuyi
- Four main sections
- Life and death of a beautiful women
- Political criticism
- Literallu treatment of politics
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