Can the Tang Dynasty be seen as a golden age for China?

Personally I think the golden age of China is TODAY. Almost all the infants can survive and grow up now, all the people have enough food, these are something never achieved in the whole Chinese history including Tang dynasty. Also, basically, Tang dynasty was still an aristocracy, in which one’s destiny was determined by who’s his father. read more

The rise of the Tang dynasty in China mirrored the rise of the Han over 800 years earlier. Like the Han dynasty before them, the Tang dynasty was created after the fall of a ruthless leadership. And like the Han before them, the Tang dynasty had their own powerful leader, Emperor Tai-tsung. read more

This was a huge reason why the Tang Dynasty was called China’s Golden Age. Chapter IV: “Exotic Horses, Foreign Generals ”: How Foreign Talent Allowed the Tang to Bring Chinese Order Abroad But it wasn’t just in Civil affairs that Internationalism occurred, the Tang Military also saw a expanding rate of the ever increasing use of foreign assets to eventually expand the Tang Empire to 5.4 million km^2. read more