Sun Changwu 
Cultural history of the Sui, Tang and Five Dynasties (Abridged Edition)-Selected Works of Sun Changwu 

The nearly four hundred years from the establishment of the Sui Dynasty to the Tang Dynasty and the "Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms" period is a period of brilliant development in Chinese history and the heyday of Chinese feudal society. This book comprehensively discusses the cultural development status, characteristics and its development laws of this period, including social conditions and ideological environment of cultural development in the Sui, Tang and Five Dynasties, main characteristics of culture in the Sui, Tang and Five Dynasties, education and imperial examination, academy, literature, art, science and technology, religion, cultural development of various ethnic groups in the border areas and their cultural exchanges with interior areas, and the international influence of culture in the Sui, Tang and Five Dynasties. The study is detailed and in-depth and worth the majority of history researchers’ reference and reading.