Note to Self: "The Song of Everlasting Sorrow" and Historical Patriarchy...

Note to Self: The Song of Everlasting Sorrow and Historical Patriarchy: I was reading, as one does���I do not remember why I was reading this, however���an English translation_ of poet, landlord, scholar, bureaucrat, drunkard Bai Juyi's Song of Everlasting Sorrow. And I was struck by four short lines:

The overturning of the natural order as a consequence of the love of Emperor Xuanzong for Lady Yang Guifei was so great that all cross the empire parents wished for girl- rather than boy-children...

This struck me as having obvious bearing on my ["Historical Patriarchy"][] lecture...

For reading about Lady Yang Guifei, Emperor Xuanzong, An Lushan, and Yang Guozhong, the best thing I have ever read is, not surprisingly: Guy Gavriel Kay (2010): Under Heaven https://books.google.com/books?isbn=110118700X

TO lern more, start with your friend and mine Wikipedia:

Tang dynasty
Emperor Xuanzong of Tang
Yang Guifei
An Lushan
An Lushan Rebellion
Bai Juyi
Chang Hen Ge : ���������: The Song of Everlasting Sorrow...
Yang Guozhong