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The East Asian history thread!

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Argeus the Paladin:
This may or may not go bust, but here goes nothing.

Here's the thread where we'd discuss anything and everything related to East Asian history in general - so discussion of Chinese, Japanese, Java, Korean, Malay, Thai, Vietnamese history, as well as that of any other OPMs I forgot to mention goes here.

Since this is such a wide topic, I'll pick one specific topic to begin with and see whether anyone buys it: Implications of Qin Shihuang's unification of China in the 3rd century BC. Discuss.

(Let's hope that more people aside from myself and TDM posts here. Otherwise it would become boring fast. :wink:)

Swordmaster:
I always found Chinese history to be confusing. So many cultural clashes with a lot more dynasties taking power and losing in a century.

The only periods that interested me are the Han era, Three Kingdoms Era and Tang era.

Tiberius Decimus Maximus:
Argeus, what's your favorite Chinese Dynasty? I've grappled with this one for a while, and I think I've finally decided on the Song Dynasty. It's just the right mix of technology, population, and arts.

Argeus the Paladin:
The Song dynasty is actually my least favorite of the bunch. Couldn't fight Liao, couldn't fight Jin, couldn't fight Mongols, and made a habit of executing its best generals every generation. There's such a thing called counterinsurgency taken too far, and they made it.

My favorite is the mainstream dynasty right before that - the Tang, or at least the earlier half. Has my favorite emperor (Tang Taizong - he's inhumanly awesome), not too far off from the Song dynasty in terms of culture, and until the An Shi wars the court managed to keep itself together for the most parts. But after that mark everything fell apart real quick.

Then again, most Chinese dynasties had a nasty habit of falling apart REALLY BADLY after the first four or five saintly rulers.

Tiberius Decimus Maximus:
I just like the Song Dynasty's society and technology. I just like seeing how close China came to modern life in various points in history, it's just fascinating.

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