Empires and Canals in the Tang and Song Dynasties
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This book is an economic history work that explores the relationship between the Grand Canal and the rise and fall of the Tang and Song empires. The work comprehensively analyzes the "Old Book of Tang", "New Book of Tang", "Old History of the Five Dynasties", "New History of the Five Dynasties", "Song History", "Zizhi Tongjian", "Continued Zizhi Tongjian Long Edition" and "Quan Tangwen" Historical materials about the Grand Canal in a large number of historical books such as "Cefu Yuangui" have made a methodical analysis of the causal relationship between the smoothness of the canal and the rise and fall of the empire's national destiny since the Sui Dynasty, and concluded: if the canal is open, the national destiny will prosper; if the canal is blocked, the national destiny will decline. This academic achievement is of great significance to our understanding of the internal connections between China's politics, economy, military, and capital establishment from the Sui and Tang Dynasties to the Ming Dynasty. It also makes a great contribution to the description of the historical process of China's economic center of gravity shifting from the north to the south since the Eastern Jin Dynasty, and the important role of the Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal in this process.
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