daoism

Especially over the 7th, 8th and early 9th centuries CE, East Asia was dominated by the great Tang China Empire, which is shown covering the whole area of ethnic China, plus Annam (northern Vietnam) to the south and the Tarim Basin in central Asia (shown gold outlined in the map below). At this time neighboring Japan and Korea were also deeply influenced by the patterns and technologies of Chinese Confucian civilization. Tang rule began in …

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