#BOTD: Yang Jian 楊堅 (541–604), Emperor Wen 文帝 (r. 681–604) first and founding emperor of the Sui 隋 (581–618), who unified #China in 589 CE after nearly three-hundred years of division into north and south #魏晉南北朝 #五胡十六國 #六朝 #中古

#BOTD: Lao Gan 勞榦 (1907–2003), #Chinese historian of the early imperial (Qin-Han #秦漢) and early medieval (Wei-Jin-Nanbeichao #魏晉南北朝) periods. Conducted groundbreaking research on Juyan Han wooden strips #居延漢簡 and #Dunhuang art #敦煌藝術. #Chinesehistory #ModernChina

#BOTD in #ChineseHistory: Lao Gan #勞幹 (1907–2003), #historian of early (#秦漢) and early medieval (#魏晉南北朝) #China. His works include the pioneering study of wooden strips from Juyan #居延漢簡 in Inner Mongolia found in 1930. http://takungpao.com.hk/231106/2019/0414/275667.html; http://museum.sinica.edu.tw/collection/20/

#BOTD: Lao Gan 勞榦 (1907–2003), #Chinese historian of the early imperial (Qin-Han #秦漢) and early medieval (Wei-Jin-Nanbeichao #魏晉南北朝) periods. Conducted groundbreaking research on Juyan Han wooden strips #居延漢簡 and #Dunhuang art #敦煌藝術. #Chinesehistory #ModernChina