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T’ang and Sung China with Peter Bol

Conversations in World History

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The Disappearance of the Aristocracy in China

80% of who we are comes from the song dynasty. What do you think he was referring to? We can still see in China, at least at the time that he was writing. So this all this gets me to some of my last of the big big changes. The disappearance of the medieval aristocracy. And they're going to be back on the tongue use of examinations. How it's the best way of getting and recruiting them.

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