The Tang was a cosmopolitan golden age of Chinese imperial power, arts, and poetry, projecting influence across Central Asia via the Silk Road and shaping the culture of Korea, Japan, and Vietnam.
The Tang dynasty ended in 907 CE when the warlord Zhu Wen forced the last Tang emperor Ai to abdicate, founding the Later Liang dynasty and beginning the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms period.
The atlas holds 2 border frames for Tang Dynasty — the shape you scrub through changes in 618 · 850.
Twitchett edited volumes 3–7 of the Cambridge History; his Tang chapters are the definitive scholarly treatment of the dynasty.
Places the Tang squarely in the Silk Road's Central Asian trading world and explains its cosmopolitan character.
The Monkey King epic spun from Xuanzang’s Tang-era pilgrimage to India.