Chapter 8 - East Asian Connections

Shotoku Taishi

________ (572- 622), a renowned nobleman from one of the main clans, was the first to lead this endeavor.

Tang and Song

The Sui foundations of renewed unity were built on by the two dynasties that followed the ________.

Foot tying

________ was the most powerful manifestation of tightening patriarchy.

Fall of Han Dynasty

heralded the development of strong and locally entrenched aristocratic families, resulting in more than three centuries of political fragmentation in China

Japanese islands

isolated from China by more than 100 miles of water, and they were never effectively attacked or conquered by their massive mainland neighbor

Sima Guang

a Song dynasty historian, and scholar put it like this: “The boy leads the girl, the girl follows the boy; the duty of husbands to be resolute and wives to be meek begins with this.”