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In the heyday of the Tang dynasty, the seats of prefectures, subprefectures and counties were usually the political, economic and cultural centers of a region. Chinese agricultural civilization reached its peak in the Tang dynasty when industry and business in cities and towns boomed. “Every household had a plentiful supply of food” and “Every granary was stuffed with grain.”
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Fu, C., Cao, W. (2019). Chang’an and the Grand Canal of the Tang Dynasty. In: Introduction to the Urban History of China. China Connections. Palgrave Macmillan, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-8207-9_15
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