#78 - Sui 2: Reconstruction

The History of China

Chris Stewart

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🗓️ 18 October 2015

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Today we finish out out look into the reign of the Sui Dynasty’s founding emperor, Wen. We begin first with the military roferms he imposed on his newly reunited state, mirroring those he made to the civil government. Once completed, Sui China will find itself on a footing it hasn’t reliably been for centuries: outward-facing and expansionist. The repercussions of this epochal change in circumstance for Chine will be felt across the globe.Time Period Covered:581-605 CEMajor Historical Figures:Sui DynastyYang Jian (Emperor Wen of Sui) [r. 581-605 CE]Crowned Prince Yang GuangPrince Yang YongGeneral Yang SuGeneral Liu FangChampa KingdomKing ÇambhuvarmanMajor Works Cited:Hirth, Friedrich (1913). “The Mystery of Fu-Lin” in The Journal of the American Oriental Society, Vol. 33. Pp. 133-208. URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/592825Arthur F. Wright, Chaffee and Twitchett (ed.) The Cambridge History of China, Vol. 3 (1979) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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1:05.0	Episode 78, Reconstruction.
1:11.0	The year 589 marked the year of Chinese reunification with the utter defeat of the Chen Dynasty, the destruction of its
1:17.3	seat of power at Jin Kang, and the relocation of the former Emperor of the South and his family to the Sui capital, Chang'an.
1:25.3	It had been an absolutely massive offensive, more than a decade in the making,
1:28.9	and obsessively planned for by Emperor One of Sui, with contingency and counter contingencies all taken into account,
1:36.1	with potentially as many as half a million soldiers near simultaneously invading from the
1:40.4	north and the west, both by land and by an immense river navy.
1:46.0	But the campaign that would see the end of the period of disunity and the supremacy of
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