This book traces the shared culture of the Chinese elite from the seventh to the twelfth centuries. The early T'ang
599 109 14MB
English Pages 532 [529] Year 1994
Report DMCA / Copyright
DOWNLOAD FILE
Addressing one of the great themes in premodern Chinese history, this book traces the transformation of the shared cultu
162 10 31MB Read more
443 31 35MB Read more
This important book provides the first comprehensive survey of women in China during the Sui and Tang dynasties from the
1,581 270 2MB Read more
Ethnic Identity in Tang China is the first work in any language to explore comprehensively the construction of ethnicity
1,401 134 1MB Read more
The friendships of writers of the mid-Tang era (780s-820s)--between literary giants like Bai Juyi and Yuan Zhen, Han Yu
1,145 60 3MB Read more
199 82 881KB Read more
The full dimensions of the medieval Chinese economic revolution are still almost unknown to economic historians in the W
465 23 6MB Read more
Academies belonged to a broad constellation of educational institutions that flourished in the Sung (960-1279), an era m
152 107 4MB Read more
This nuanced study traces how Chinese came to view death as an opportunity to fashion and convey social identities and m
236 74 4MB Read more
China turned majority urban only in the recent decade, a dramatic leap given that less than 20 percent of its population
178 24 6MB Read more