Abe no Nakamaro - A Japanese in Cosmopolitan Tang Dynasty China

Abe no Nakamaro was a Japanese envoy who experienced Tang dynasty China at the best of time, the height of its golden age, and the worst of time, An Lushan’s Rebellion. This is how he would have experienced the diverse and cosmopolitan Tang dynasty.

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0:00 Introduction
0:45 Japan's Mission to Korea & China
2:36 Abe no Nakamaro & Kibi no Makibi
3:41 Foreign Traders
5:11 Religious Freemarket
6:13 Imperial Examination
8:44 Yang Guifei & Beauty Standard
9:46 Army and Rebellion
11:16 Abe Tried to go home
13:17 Legacy and Legends

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📚SOURCES:
Mark Edward Lewis, 2009, China's Cosmopolitan Empire
新唐書, New Book of Tang
舊唐書, Old Book of Tang
ZHANG Guogang, 2007, The transformations of the Tang military system and social changes in medieval China
M.A.C. van Berke, 2017, The changing portrayal of Yang Guifei’s beauty
Wai-Ming Ng 吳偉明, 2016, The Images of Yang Guifei in Tokugawa Texts
Jan Fontein, 1968, Kibi's Adventures in China: Facts, Fiction, and Their Meaning
Charlotte von Verschuer, 1999, Japan's Foreign Relations 600 to 1200 A.D
Karl F. Friday, 1997, Pushing Beyond the Pale

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