Yang Yan was an 8th century minister and reformer of the Tang dynasty Emperor Dezong. Yang served for less than two years. Dezong became emperor in 779/780 and Yang, a close friend of the emperor, was made chancellor on his accession. Yang and the emperor believed that China was in decline. Outdated tax systems demanded immediate attention, and Dezong tasked Yang with those reforms. Emperor Suzong (r. 756-762) had attempted to achieve similar reforms, … Wikipedia
Confucian philosopher Yang Xiong (53 BC-18 CE) took the moderate position that human nature is a mixture of good and evil. www.san.beck.org/AB3-China.html
In the next years the Tarim Basin was successively conquered by Tang troops and was from now on administered by the "four garrisons" ( sizhen : Qiuci [Kucha], Yanqi [Karashahr], Yutian [Khotan], and Shule [Kashgar]). www.chinaknowledge.de/History/Tang/tang-event.html
Taking advantage of the internal conflicts in Kogury and with the help of Silla, Tang Gaozong finally succeeded in subduing Kogury, occupying Pyngyang in 668 ( 9). nacrp.cic.sfu.ca/nacrp/articles/panyihong/panyihongtext.html
The definitive Wikipedia entry for Yang Yan. Wikipedia is the biggest multilingual free-content encyclopedia on the Internet. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yang_Yan
