Linked from

The 60 pages that link to Song dynasty, each with the reason it gives.

• Four BooksNarrower topic: The curriculum’s decisive reorganization occurred in the Song intellectual world.

• Su ShiNarrower topic: Its institutions and cultural life formed the setting for Su Shi’s career.

• Mongol conquest of ChinaNarrower topic: Its defeat ended nearly three centuries of Song rule.

• Jingkang IncidentNarrower topic: The incident ended its northern period but not the dynasty itself.

• Northern Song dynastyNarrower topic: The Northern Song was the first half of this longer dynasty.

• SuzhouNarrower topic: Suzhou’s prosperity and cultural prominence expanded during the Song era.

• Han YuNarrower topic: Song writers revived Han Yu’s prose ideals and strengthened his place in literary history.

• YuefuNarrower topic: Song-era anthologists helped preserve and classify earlier yuefu poetry.

• Sima GuangNarrower topic: Sima Guang served the dynasty as a court official and political actor.

• Wang AnshiNarrower topic: Its fiscal and military challenges framed the problems Wang sought to address.

• Water MarginNarrower topic: The novel places its outlaw stories under Song rule, though its plot is not a straightforward historical record.

• Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms periodNarrower topic: Its founders began the campaigns that brought the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms period to a close.

• Chinese woodblock printingNarrower topic: Printing expanded substantially during the Song era alongside commerce and book production.

• Gaozong of SongNarrower topic: Gaozong’s reign preserved Song rule after the dynasty lost its northern heartland.

• Ouyang XiuNarrower topic: Its institutions shaped Ouyang Xiu’s political service and literary world.

• Along the River During the Qingming FestivalNarrower topic: The work emerged from the Song’s flourishing urban culture and arts.

• Fire lanceNarrower topic: Fire lances emerged in the military setting of Song China.

• HeqinNarrower topic: Song agreements with northern powers are often compared with Han heqin, despite major differences in context.

• Battle of YamenNarrower topic: The battle ended the dynasty’s rule after decades of Southern Song resistance.

• Li QingzhaoNarrower topic: Li Qingzhao’s life and literary career unfolded during the Song dynasty.

• Paper moneyNarrower topic: Its expanding trade and state institutions formed the setting for early paper currency.

• Cheng HaoNarrower topic: Its intellectual and political setting shaped Cheng Hao’s work and its later reception.

• Foot bindingNarrower topic: The earliest well-supported accounts place foot binding in the late Song period.

• Zhou DunyiNarrower topic: Zhou’s career unfolded during the dynasty’s revival of Confucian scholarship.

• Emperor Renzong of SongNarrower topic: Renzong’s reign was a long middle period in the dynasty’s history.

• Emperor Taizu of SongNarrower topic: Taizu’s reign established the dynasty whose institutions he began shaping.

• Jia XianNarrower topic: Jia Xian's mathematical activity belongs to the Northern Song period.

• Later ZhouNarrower topic: It succeeded the Later Zhou and inherited its expanding central state.

• Li TangNarrower topic: Li Tang’s career unfolded during the dynasty’s northern and southern phases.

• Wujing ZongyaoNarrower topic: The compendium was commissioned and compiled within Song government.

• Su SongNarrower topic: Su Song’s offices and engineering work belonged to this dynasty’s institutions.

• Shi Nai'anNarrower topic: Water Margin locates its outlaw story in the Song period, long before the novel’s likely composition.