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Sui to Tang, Transition From

Years: 613 - 628

The transition from Sui to Tang refers to a period in which the Chinese dynasty Sui Dynasty disintegrates into a number of short-lived states, some ruled by former Sui officials and generals and some by agrarian rebel leaders; those states are then consolidated into the Tang Dynasty, founded by the former Sui general Emperor Gaozu of Tang (Li Yuan).

The period roughly spans from 613, when Emperor Yang of Sui launches his first of three campaigns against Goguryeo, leading to a number of desertions from the army and the start of agrarian rebellions against Sui, to 628, when Emperor Gaozu's son Emperor Taizong of Tang (Li Shimin) destroys the Liang state ruled by the agrarian rebel ruler Liang Shidu and reunifies China.

"Who controls the past controls the future: who controls the present controls the past...Every record has been destroyed or falsified, every book has been rewritten, every picture has been repainted, every statue and street and building has been renamed, every date has been altered."

― George Orwell, 1984 (1948)