The Western Jin Dynasty & 5 Barbarians (266 - 316)

China was unified for a few decades before things went very wrong with the War of the Eight Princes and the Five Barbarians Rebellion.

Comments:

The warlord Wang Jun (王浚) (252 - 314) is a different person than the general Wang Jun (王濬) (206 - 286) in the Three Kingdoms video. Unfortunately Chinese is full of homonyms that are highly confusing.

Chapters:

0:00 Introduction
0:41 Confucian Elites
4:24 Western Jin Succession Crisis
8:11 New Philosophies: Xuanxue & Qingtan
12:37 War of the Eight Princes
17:31 Five Barbarians
20:06 End of the War
21:31 Disaster of Yongjia
25:24 Zu Ti's Expedition
27:19 Eastern Jin Dynasty Established

References:

Chan, A. (2019, May 28). Neo-Daoism. Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy. Retrieved February 6, 2023, from https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/ne...

Dien, A. E., & Knapp, K. N. (2019). Cambridge History of China: The Six Dynasties, 220-589. Cambridge University Press.

翦伯赞. (2011). 中国史纲要. 北京大学出版社.

劳榦. (2018). 魏晋南北朝简史. 中华书局.

万绳楠整理. (2008). 陈寅恪魏晋南北朝史讲演录. 贵州人民出版社.

Book of Jin

Zizhi Tongjian


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