Tang Dynasty: how to govern people equally

05/06/21 • 8 min

If you suddenly traveled back in time to ancient China, could you make a distinction between the "Hu people" of that era? If you arrived during the Western Han Dynasty, they were Xiongnu people. If you arrived at the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty, these people were of the Western Regions. And by the Tang Dynasty, things had changed completely.

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