#78 - Sui 2: Reconstruction

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 CE Major Historical Figures: Sui Dynasty Yang Jian (Emperor Wen of Sui) [r. 581-605 CE] Crowned Prince Yang Guang Prince Yang Yong General Yang Su General Liu Fang Champa Kingdom King Çambhuvarman Major 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/592825 Arthur F. Wright, Chaffee and Twitchett (ed.) The Cambridge History of China, Vol. 3 (1979)