On the Massacre of the Alan Warriors during the Mongol Conquest of the Southern Song Empire by Kaziev E.V.

“…Research materials: Official chronicles of the Chinese Song and Yuan dynasties, the “Book of the Marvels of the World” by Marco Polo. …”
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Temple Diplomacy, Sacred Rites, and Overseas Chinese During the Reign of Song Emperor Zhenzong (997–1022) by Gregory Sattler

“…Facing political pressure after signing a humiliating peace treaty with foreign adversaries in 1005, the Song dynasty emperor Zhenzong (968–1022, r. 997–1022) utilized unconventional forms of religious diplomacy and revived ancient rites to shore up support for his rule. …”
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Did Wu Zetian Name “卍” as “Wanzi”? A Historical Reassessment by Lu Lu

“…However, as this rationale gradually became obsolete over time, the legend that “Empress Wu Zetian decreed that ‘卍’ be pronounced as ‘wan’” arose during the Song dynasty and has persisted to this day.…”
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The knowledge and power in Chinese education by Guo Zhou

“…The article adopts the research method of documentary analysis to discourse analyse the classical literature in Chinese history. The article selects the Zhou Dynasty, the Han Dynasty, the Tang Dynasty, and the Song Dynasty as representatives of ancient China and the period of the Cultural Revolution as representatives of modern China. …”
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A review on the Shouzhen’s (守真) religion identity of the Eight Patriarch of the Huayan School by Yanhong Ping

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Simulating urban evolution by H-GIS and H-BIM: a temporal and spatial study of Pingjiang map by Pania Yanjie Mu, Sarah E. Fraser, Maolin Peng

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The rapid infilling of a tide-dominated channel on the southern Yangtze Delta plain during the Medieval Climate Anomaly by Zhuoxuan Wu, Jianwen Wang, Xiaomei Nian, Fengyue Qiu, Zhanghua Wang, Zhanghua Wang

“…This study investigates the rapid siltation of the palaeo-Qinglong channel during the Song dynasty and its relationship to climate change. …”
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Reflection on the Spread of Chinese Popular Religion: A Case-Study of the Han Yu Belief in the Chaozhou Region by Guoping Li

“…Han Yu 韓愈 was a prominent literatus in the Tang dynasty and an influential figure in the history of Chaozhou culture. …”
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Chinese fortune stick drawing: supernatural narrative in the The Story of the Stone by Yutong Zheng

“…By the Song Dynasty, it was widely practiced in temples and Daoist monasteries. …”
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On Han Yu’s Letters to Chan Monk Da Dian (819 AD) by Tatyana G. Mazur

“…The paper deals with the problem of the interaction between Buddhism and Confucianism in Tang China, a critical period in the history of Chinese Buddhism after which the intellectual power of Buddhism in China and its ideological influence on the Confucian elite considerably weakened. …”
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Diversified Communication and Harmony of Chinese culture: a historical investigation into the religious-culture exchanges among the Hans, Tibetans, and Mongolians by Wuhu Sun, Dorje Banbur, Yue Li

“…Drawing upon extensive literature and materials documenting the religious-culture exchanges and interactions among the Han, Tibetan, and Mongolian ethnicities since the Tang and Song dynasties, this article investigates the interaction, exchange, and integration history of religious-culture among these ethnicities, aiming to explore the historical evolution of this pattern of “Diversified Communication and Harmony”.…”
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Tracing the evolution of ancient Chinese military science through classical texts by Mengcheng Wu, Dongbo Wang

“…The results indicate that the inheritance of the ideas from “The Art of War” by Sun Tzu is primarily concentrated in the Warring States period and the Song and Yuan dynasties. Moreover, the themes and technologies in ancient Chinese military texts exhibit a trend of gradual enrichment and diversification over the course of history.…”
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