Looking into China’s History once again: How can you explain the changing fortunes of Buddhism in China? How did China influence the world of the third-wave era? How was China itself transformed by its encounters with a wider world? Why are the centuries of the Tang and Song dynasties in China sometimes referred to as a “golden age”? In what ways did women’s lives change during the Tang and Song dynasties? How did the Chinese and their nomadic neighbors to the north view each other? What assumptions underlay the tribute system? How did the tribute system in practice differ from the ideal Chinese understanding of its operation? In what ways did China have an influence in Korea, Vietnam, and Japan? In what ways was that influence resisted?

Looking into China’s History once again: How can you explain the changing fortunes of Buddhism in China? How did China influence the world of the third-wave era? How was China itself transformed by its encounters with a wider world? Why are the centuries of the Tang and Song dynasties in China sometimes referred to as a “golden age”? In what ways did women’s lives change during the Tang and Song dynasties? How did the Chinese and their nomadic neighbors to the north view each other? What assumptions underlay the tribute system? How did the tribute system in practice differ from the ideal Chinese understanding of its operation? In what ways did China have an influence in Korea, Vietnam, and Japan? In what ways was that influence resisted?