of the Kaiyuan Era of the Great Tang -- 6.4 Chang'an, a World Metropolis, and the Eastern Asian Cultural Sphere with Tang as the Core -- 6.5 Tang Poetry -- 7 The Song-Yuan Civilization -- 7.1 China Run by Scholar-Officials -- 7.2 The Rise of Neo-Confucianism -- 7.3 Commercial Cities' Prosperity -- 7.4 Dadu of Yuan: Shaping the Center of a Unified Multi-ethnic State. |