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Author : Ruixi Zhu,Fusheng Liu,Bangwei Zhang
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2016-09
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 131661834X
Author : Wendy Swartz,Robert Ford Campany,Yang Lu,Jessey Choo
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 745 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2014-03-11
Category : History
ISBN : 9780231531009
This innovative sourcebook builds a dynamic understanding of China's early medieval period (220–589) through an original selection and arrangement of literary, historical, religious, and critical texts. A tumultuous and formative era, these centuries saw the longest stretch of political fragmentation in China's imperial history, resulting in new ethnic configurations, the rise of powerful clans, and a pervasive divide between north and south. Deploying thematic categories, the editors sketch the period in a novel way for students and, by featuring many texts translated into English for the first time, recast the era for specialists. Thematic topics include regional definitions and tensions, governing mechanisms and social reality, ideas of self and other, relations with the unseen world, everyday life, and cultural concepts. Within each section, the editors and translators introduce the selected texts and provide critical commentary on their historical significance, along with suggestions for further reading and research.
Author : Wolfram Eberhard
Publisher : Brill Archive
Page : 206 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 1970
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 8210379456XXX
Author : Li Feng
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 369 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2013-12-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9780521895521
A critical new interpretation of the early history of Chinese civilization based on the most recent scholarship and archaeological discoveries.
Author : Deshan Xiong
Publisher : Scpg Publishing Corporation
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2014-10
Category : China
ISBN : 1938368150
The book was written by the past Historian, Professor Xiong Deshan. It explained the origin and development of China civilization from the point of view of economy and society by making full use of archaeology materials and deep analysis of the long and slow development of Chinese society. For the researchers on China history and social history, it could be an important reference.Published by SCPG Publishing Corporation and distributed by World Scientific for all markets except China
Author : Michael Loewe,Edward L. Shaughnessy
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 1192 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 1999-03-13
Category : History
ISBN : 0521470307
The Cambridge History of Ancient China provides a survey of the institutional and cultural history of pre-imperial China.
Author : Evelyn S. Rawski
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 516 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 1998-11-15
Category : History
ISBN : 052092679X
The Qing Dynasty (1644-1911) was the last and arguably the greatest of the conquest dynasties to rule China. Its rulers, Manchus from the north, held power for three centuries despite major cultural and ideological differences with the Han majority. In this book, Evelyn Rawski offers a bold new interpretation of the remarkable success of this dynasty, arguing that it derived not from the assimilation of the dominant Chinese culture, as has previously been believed, but rather from an artful synthesis of Manchu leadership styles with Han Chinese policies.
Author : Tanigawa Michio
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 182 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2023-07-28
Category : History
ISBN : 9780520316461
This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1985.
Author : Albert E. Dien
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 414 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : China
ISBN : 9622092446
Author : Yuhua Wang
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2022-10-11
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780691237510
How social networks shaped the imperial Chinese state China was the world’s leading superpower for almost two millennia, falling behind only in the last two centuries and now rising to dominance again. What factors led to imperial China’s decline? The Rise and Fall of Imperial China offers a systematic look at the Chinese state from the seventh century through to the twentieth. Focusing on how short-lived emperors often ruled a strong state while long-lasting emperors governed a weak one, Yuhua Wang shows why lessons from China’s history can help us better understand state building. Wang argues that Chinese rulers faced a fundamental trade-off that he calls the sovereign’s dilemma: a coherent elite that could collectively strengthen the state could also overthrow the ruler. This dilemma emerged because strengthening state capacity and keeping rulers in power for longer required different social networks in which central elites were embedded. Wang examines how these social networks shaped the Chinese state, and vice versa, and he looks at how the ruler’s pursuit of power by fragmenting the elites became the final culprit for China’s fall. Drawing on more than a thousand years of Chinese history, The Rise and Fall of Imperial China highlights the role of elite social relations in influencing the trajectories of state development.
Author : David C Johnson
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2019-09-10
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780429706264
Most modern scholars recognize that there were great differences between China's ruling elite in the middle and late traditional period; many have called the period up through the T'ang dynasty "aristocratic," in contrast to the more meritocratic and socially mobile age that followed. But until now there has been no serious effort to discover how the social elite was defined in medieval times, and who belonged to it. David Johnson discusses in detail medieval definitions of the social elite, and, with the help of several manuscripts of the ninth century, identifies the families that belonged to that class.
Author : Deshan Xiong
Publisher : World Scientific
Page : 122 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2015-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781938368264
The book was written by the past Historian, Professor Xiong Deshan. It explained the origin and development of China civilization from the point of view of economy and society by making full use of archaeology materials and deep analysis of the long and slow development of Chinese society. For the researchers on China history and social history, it could be an important reference.Published by SCPG Publishing Corporation and distributed by World Scientific for all markets except China
Author : David Graff
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2003-09-02
Category : History
ISBN : 9781134553532
Shortly after 300 AD, barbarian invaders from Inner Asia toppled China's Western Jin dynasty, leaving the country divided and at war for several centuries. Despite this, the empire gradually formed a unified imperial order. Medieval Chinese Warfare, 300-900 explores the military strategies, institutions and wars that reconstructed the Chinese empire that has survived into modern times. Drawing on classical Chinese sources and the best modern scholarship from China and Japan, David A. Graff connects military affairs with political and social developments to show how China's history was shaped by war.
Author : Andrew Eisenberg
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 293 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2008-01-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789004163812
The institution of the Retired Emperor forms the innovative angle from which this study analyzes Classical Chinese political history (4th to 7th centuries A.D.) With the help of the ensuing insights the volume develops into a portal through which to gain understanding of broader patterns of political and social action relevant to the Classical Chinese monarchy. In this truly interdisciplinary approach Weberian historical sociological concepts are engaged as a means of bringing specific historical actions into a wider cross cultural comparative perspective and lays the basis for a new framework to think about kingship and succession in East Asia.
Author : Victor Cunrui Xiong
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 850 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : China
ISBN : 9780810860537
The crucial period of Chinese history, 220-960, falls naturally into contrasting phases. The first phase, also known as that of "early medieval China," is an age of political decentralization. Following the breakup of the Han empire, China was plunged into civil war and fragmentation and stayed divided for nearly four centuries. The second phase started in 589, during the Sui dynasty, when China was once again brought under a single government. Under the Sui, the bureaucracy was revitalized, the military strengthened, and the taxation system reformed. The fall of the Sui in 618 gave way to the even stronger Tang dynasty, which represents an apogee of traditional Chinese civilization. Inheriting all the great institutions developed under the Sui, the Tang made great achievements in poetry, painting, music, and architecture. The An Lushan rebellion, which also took place during Tang rule, brought about far-reaching changes in the socioeconomic, political, and military arenas. What transpired in the second half of the Tang and the ensuing Five Dynasties provided the foundation for the next age of late imperial China. The Historical Dictionary of Medieval China fills an urgent need for a standard reference tailored to the interest of Western academics and readers. The history of medieval China is related through the book's introductory essay, maps, a table of Dynastic Periods, a bibliography, and hundreds of cross-referenced dictionary entries on key people, historical geography, arts, institutions, events, and other important terms.