Chapter 8: China and the World
Hello and welcome back to my blog! As we enter the month of November, make sure to always keep warm as the weather gets chillier. For this week's blog post, I will be discussing Chapter 8: China and the World. The collapse of the Han Dynasty around 220 c.e ushered in more than three centuries of political fragmentation in China and signaled the rise of powerful and locally entrenched aristocratic families. At the time, Confucianism was discredited and opened doors for the acceptance of Buddhism and Daoism. It was at this time that people witnessed a substantial Chinese migration southward towards the Yangzi River Valley, a movement of people that gave southern China some 60 percent of the country's population by 1000. Unlike the fall of the western Roman Empire, where political fragmentation proved to be a permanent condition, China regained its unity under the Sui dynasty. Its emperors solidified that unity by a vast expansion of the country's canal system, stretchin...
