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*''Dates: [[581]]-[[618]]''
*''Chinese/Japanese'': 隋 ''(Suí / Zui)''
The Sui Dynasty was a short-lived but significant dynasty in [[Periods of Chinese history|Chinese history]] which reunited [[China proper|China]] in [[589]] after over 360 years of division, and which set the foundations for the [[Tang Dynasty]] which would follow.
The Sui was established in [[581]] when Yang Jian, a general of the [[Northern Zhou Dynasty]], usurped the throne, declaring an end to the Northern Zhou and taking the throne himself as [[Emperor Wen of Sui]]. Within eight years, he conquered the remainder of China, putting an end to the period of [[Northern and Southern Dynasties]] (a sub-section of the [[Six Dynasties Period]]) and reuniting China under a single Imperial state for the first time since the fall of the [[Han Dynasty|Han]] in [[220]].
Building on a legacy of Sino-Nomadic governments of the north, Emperor Wen attempted to reconcile this political heritage with that of the more dominantly [[Han people|Han Chinese]] political traditions of the south, incorporating [[Buddhism]], [[Daoism]], and [[Confucianism]] alongside one another in the formulation of a new legal code.
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==References==
*Conrad Schirokauer, et al, ''A Brief History of Chinese and Japanese Civilizations'', Fourth Edition, Cengage Learning (2012), 100-101.
[[Category:Historical Periods]]
[[Category:Asuka Period]]
*''Chinese/Japanese'': 隋 ''(Suí / Zui)''
The Sui Dynasty was a short-lived but significant dynasty in [[Periods of Chinese history|Chinese history]] which reunited [[China proper|China]] in [[589]] after over 360 years of division, and which set the foundations for the [[Tang Dynasty]] which would follow.
The Sui was established in [[581]] when Yang Jian, a general of the [[Northern Zhou Dynasty]], usurped the throne, declaring an end to the Northern Zhou and taking the throne himself as [[Emperor Wen of Sui]]. Within eight years, he conquered the remainder of China, putting an end to the period of [[Northern and Southern Dynasties]] (a sub-section of the [[Six Dynasties Period]]) and reuniting China under a single Imperial state for the first time since the fall of the [[Han Dynasty|Han]] in [[220]].
Building on a legacy of Sino-Nomadic governments of the north, Emperor Wen attempted to reconcile this political heritage with that of the more dominantly [[Han people|Han Chinese]] political traditions of the south, incorporating [[Buddhism]], [[Daoism]], and [[Confucianism]] alongside one another in the formulation of a new legal code.
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==References==
*Conrad Schirokauer, et al, ''A Brief History of Chinese and Japanese Civilizations'', Fourth Edition, Cengage Learning (2012), 100-101.
[[Category:Historical Periods]]
[[Category:Asuka Period]]