Meanwhile on the other side of the world, China--where there was no millennium--had just emerged from several decades of chaos and division and was embarking on the Song dynasty, a period when culture and civil administration were at their peak.
而在地球的另一端，並未有千禧概念的中國，則是剛剛結束五代十國長期紛亂、正要開創中國歷史上人文最勝的宋王朝。