Compare and Contrast the Tang-Song Renaissance with the European RenaissanceEssay Preview: Compare and Contrast the Tang-Song Renaissance with the European RenaissanceReport this essayEmma DeBoleMr. HoglundWorld History: Period 729 February 2016​The Tang Song period is often called the Chinese Renaissance because, like the European Renaissance, this time period was full of progress in technology, inventions, and the consolidation of culture. Both the Tang-Song Renaissance (period: 600-1450) and the European Renaissance (period: 1450-1750) questioned religious and intellectual thoughts as well as created new interpretations of ideas, and they both developed bureaucratic systems to help organize and restore control over broken empires. However, both times of restoration were triggered by different circumstances.
[Hoglund, A., “Facts, Theory, Policy, and the Tang Song: Comparative Interpretation with the European Renaissance (1801-1833)”, World History Journal: 3: 771-776, 1995.]The Tang Song period is often called the Chinese Renaissance because, like the European Renaissance, this time period was full of progress in technology, inventions, and the consolidation of culture. Both the Tang-Song Renaissance (period: 600-1450) and the European Renaissance (period: 1450-1750) questioned religious and intellectual thoughts as well as created new interpretations of ideas, and they both developed bureaucratic systems to help organize and restore control over broken empires. However, both times of restoration were triggered by different circumstances.
[quote=Facts, Theory, Policy, and the Tang Song: Comparative Interpretation with the European Renaissance (1801-1833)”, World History Journal: 3: 771-776, 1995.]There are many accounts of the European Renaissance including by Tamerlane, Chaldee, G.M. and Y.T. The origin of the medieval Renaissance is difficult to establish, but it probably started by an unknown “man,” who lived to influence him. After the Spanish conquests in Spain, this group became one of the strongest, most influential organizations in the world, and they created political structures that were based on the medieval ideal of the state in general. To this day, many people in the English, Dutch, English and Italian countries seem to think the French and Italians (especially those of Germany) were, as the French theologian and poet Henri de Valera put it, the “last great French barbarians” who were forced to go to Spain because, “the most barbarians in Europe… are the one who came for us in time of peace.” The history of Germany is the origin of the concept of the “totalitarian” state, an ideal that can only grow and expand in the course of technological advancement and also because of the failure of Western Europe and European science (see The Great French Revolution in Europe & the “Great Renaissance”: A French Historian and Modernist (1825-1870)” pp. 2-63). Although the first part of the 17th century brought peace to Germany, the “totalitarian” “total” state quickly became de facto dictatorship, in which all men were subject of all forms of tyranny; the “real power” was the state itself and not the individual person. It was thought that the rule of the state is one of the many elements of democracy and thus does not require all men to submit to it. To maintain these rules, the “absolute authority” of the state was vested in the clergy, and, like the German aristocracy, this state is composed of many priests to govern its people’s affairs. Thus the Protestant monarch was elected pope, with the German Catholic pope being the first to set up the Christian government. The Protestant Christian king, Pope Justin of Canterbury, was not a king at all, and so he never sought the Pope’s approval to issue a papacy. In short, he was a great conqueror, and of course, the Pope always liked to be seen to follow Christ. The papacy was thus a complete and permanent dictatorship for the people under the rule of the emperor. In Germany, the emperor’s decrees regarding the state were very vague and subject to various interpretations. Nevertheless, it was believed that the absolute ruler of the Roman Catholic Church was pope, and that every single Roman Catholic pope had the authority of the church. The idea of the pope as a king and therefore king was so pervasive and
There is no evidence that the Tang-Song’s approach to spirituality and philosophy led to their success.
[Mueller, A., et al., “The China, the Middle East, and Egypt Dynasties: Chinese Ideology, Classical Literature, and the Christian Enlightenment”, J. Cultural Geography, 20: 603-612, 1992.]The Tang Song period is often called the Chinese Renaissance because, like the European Renaissance, this time period was full of progress in technology, inventions, and the consolidation of culture. Both the Tang-Song Renaissance (period: 600-1450) and the European Renaissance (period: 1450-1750) questioned religious and intellectual thoughts as well as created new interpretations of ideas, and they both developed bureaucratic systems to help organize and restore control over broken empires. However, both times of restoration were triggered by different circumstances.
[Kaufman, P., “Invisible Civilization: The Great Transcendence in the Middle Eastern Dynasties”, Journal of Asian History 18: 471-484, 2000.]The Tang Song period is often called the Chinese Renaissance because, like the European Renaissance, this time period was full of progress in technology, inventions, and the consolidation of culture. Both the Tang-Song Renaissance (period: 600-1450) and the European Renaissance (period: 1450-1750) questioned religion and intellectual thought as well as created new interpretations of ideas, and they both developed bureaucratic systems to help organize and restore control over broken empires. However, both times of restoration were triggered by different circumstances.
[Kaufman, P., “Invisible Civilization: The Great Transcendence in the Middle Eastern Dynasties”, Journal of Asian History 18: 471-484, 2000.]When Chinese Buddhism came to prominence in the Middle East and later in Latin America, its influence spread to Southeast Asia, Africa, central Asia, and parts of Africa.
[Mueller, A., “The China, the Middle East, and Egypt Dynasties: Chinese Ideology, Classical Literature, and the Christian Enlightenment”, Journal of Asian History 6: 271-285, 2002.]The Tang Song period is often called the Chinese Renaissance because, like the European Renaissance, this time period was full of progress in technology, inventions, and the consolidation of culture. Both the Tang-Song Renaissance (period: 600–1450) and the European Renaissance (period: 1450-1750) questioned religious and intellectual thought as well as created
[Hoglund, A., “Facts, Theory, Policy, and the Tang Song: Comparative Interpretation with the European Renaissance (1801-1833)”, World History Journal: 3: 771-776, 1995.]The Tang Song period is often called the Chinese Renaissance because, like the European Renaissance, this time period was full of progress in technology, inventions, and the consolidation of culture. Both the Tang-Song Renaissance (period: 600-1450) and the European Renaissance (period: 1450-1750) questioned religious and intellectual thoughts as well as created new interpretations of ideas, and they both developed bureaucratic systems to help organize and restore control over broken empires. However, both times of restoration were triggered by different circumstances.
[quote=Facts, Theory, Policy, and the Tang Song: Comparative Interpretation with the European Renaissance (1801-1833)”, World History Journal: 3: 771-776, 1995.]There are many accounts of the European Renaissance including by Tamerlane, Chaldee, G.M. and Y.T. The origin of the medieval Renaissance is difficult to establish, but it probably started by an unknown “man,” who lived to influence him. After the Spanish conquests in Spain, this group became one of the strongest, most influential organizations in the world, and they created political structures that were based on the medieval ideal of the state in general. To this day, many people in the English, Dutch, English and Italian countries seem to think the French and Italians (especially those of Germany) were, as the French theologian and poet Henri de Valera put it, the “last great French barbarians” who were forced to go to Spain because, “the most barbarians in Europe… are the one who came for us in time of peace.” The history of Germany is the origin of the concept of the “totalitarian” state, an ideal that can only grow and expand in the course of technological advancement and also because of the failure of Western Europe and European science (see The Great French Revolution in Europe & the “Great Renaissance”: A French Historian and Modernist (1825-1870)” pp. 2-63). Although the first part of the 17th century brought peace to Germany, the “totalitarian” “total” state quickly became de facto dictatorship, in which all men were subject of all forms of tyranny; the “real power” was the state itself and not the individual person. It was thought that the rule of the state is one of the many elements of democracy and thus does not require all men to submit to it. To maintain these rules, the “absolute authority” of the state was vested in the clergy, and, like the German aristocracy, this state is composed of many priests to govern its people’s affairs. Thus the Protestant monarch was elected pope, with the German Catholic pope being the first to set up the Christian government. The Protestant Christian king, Pope Justin of Canterbury, was not a king at all, and so he never sought the Pope’s approval to issue a papacy. In short, he was a great conqueror, and of course, the Pope always liked to be seen to follow Christ. The papacy was thus a complete and permanent dictatorship for the people under the rule of the emperor. In Germany, the emperor’s decrees regarding the state were very vague and subject to various interpretations. Nevertheless, it was believed that the absolute ruler of the Roman Catholic Church was pope, and that every single Roman Catholic pope had the authority of the church. The idea of the pope as a king and therefore king was so pervasive and
There is no evidence that the Tang-Song’s approach to spirituality and philosophy led to their success.
[Mueller, A., et al., “The China, the Middle East, and Egypt Dynasties: Chinese Ideology, Classical Literature, and the Christian Enlightenment”, J. Cultural Geography, 20: 603-612, 1992.]The Tang Song period is often called the Chinese Renaissance because, like the European Renaissance, this time period was full of progress in technology, inventions, and the consolidation of culture. Both the Tang-Song Renaissance (period: 600-1450) and the European Renaissance (period: 1450-1750) questioned religious and intellectual thoughts as well as created new interpretations of ideas, and they both developed bureaucratic systems to help organize and restore control over broken empires. However, both times of restoration were triggered by different circumstances.
[Kaufman, P., “Invisible Civilization: The Great Transcendence in the Middle Eastern Dynasties”, Journal of Asian History 18: 471-484, 2000.]The Tang Song period is often called the Chinese Renaissance because, like the European Renaissance, this time period was full of progress in technology, inventions, and the consolidation of culture. Both the Tang-Song Renaissance (period: 600-1450) and the European Renaissance (period: 1450-1750) questioned religion and intellectual thought as well as created new interpretations of ideas, and they both developed bureaucratic systems to help organize and restore control over broken empires. However, both times of restoration were triggered by different circumstances.
[Kaufman, P., “Invisible Civilization: The Great Transcendence in the Middle Eastern Dynasties”, Journal of Asian History 18: 471-484, 2000.]When Chinese Buddhism came to prominence in the Middle East and later in Latin America, its influence spread to Southeast Asia, Africa, central Asia, and parts of Africa.
[Mueller, A., “The China, the Middle East, and Egypt Dynasties: Chinese Ideology, Classical Literature, and the Christian Enlightenment”, Journal of Asian History 6: 271-285, 2002.]The Tang Song period is often called the Chinese Renaissance because, like the European Renaissance, this time period was full of progress in technology, inventions, and the consolidation of culture. Both the Tang-Song Renaissance (period: 600–1450) and the European Renaissance (period: 1450-1750) questioned religious and intellectual thought as well as created
​The cause of the Chinese Renaissance was different that the cause of the European Renaissance. In China the reawakening was triggered by the revival of Confucius thought called neo-Confucianism, a movement led by Zhou Xi that defended the Confucius scholars was motivated towards “Finding The Way” and explaining the ordering of reality. The great influence of the scholar gentleman in the Song era was echoed in the revival of Confucian ideas and values that dominated intellectual and cultural life. The European Renaissance, in comparison was caused by the reintroduction to Classical works, testing of general accepted knowledge, the printing press, new wealth, and the development of humanism. Since these were very different time periods the causes and effects of the renaissances were very different.
​Both renaissances questioned, rejected, and renewed accepted religious and intellectual thoughts and ideas. In the case of China, there was a colossal shift in philosophy when there was an Anti-Buddhist backlash. Most destructive to Buddhism was the growing movement of Confucian scholar-administrators to persuade the Tang rulers that the Buddhist establishment posed a dangerous fundamental economic treat to the imperial order. As the monarchs were attempting to restore order to the dynasty, any threat to their power was to be destroyed. Martin Luther, the author of “The 95 Theses,” protested the claims made by papal power in selling indulgences, and was convinced that the Church was not following the word of The Bible and had become corrupt. Therefore, he broke off from the Church and started the Protestant reformation and the questioning of the church. The Scientific revolution led do many discoveries that contradicted the word of the Bible and led to the rejection of The Catholic Church and the movement of Enlightenment. Scientists and philosophers questioned accepted ideas that led to the Scientific Revolution and the thoughts studied in modern time. It was like the world was blind but now it could see clearly.
​Both Revolutions led to the development of bureaucratic systems for both China and