七世紀初頭の中国における内亂に就いて(上)

Abstract

The Sui (隋) dynasty failed in securing internal peace due to the resistance of the people on the one hand and the pressure from outside by the Kao-kou-li (高句麗) and the T'u-chueh (突厥), and this brought the dynasty to a critical situation in spite of its endeavours to upkeep political power by means of reinforcing the system of equitable redistribution of land. The military expeditions to Kao-kou-li, which had been made to get rid of this turbalent people, resulted in accelerating internal disruption and led to the revolts of the peasant class which had been seriously affected by the land redistribution policy. Li Yuan (李淵) and his clique supported by the anti-Sui officials and powerful clans took action to suppress the peasant uprisings, and finally succeeded in founding the T'ang (唐) dynasty. The latter replaced the aristocracy as the mechanism of administration with the bureaucracy which was born as the result of the development of jurisprudence.