China during the Tang-Song Interregnum, 878-978: New Approaches to the Southern Kingdoms Contributor(s): Clark, Hugh (Author) |
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ISBN: 1032053623 ISBN-13: 9781032053622 Publisher: Routledge OUR PRICE: $152.00 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: June 2021 |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Social Science | Ethnic Studies - General - Social Science | Research - Social Science | Regional Studies |
Dewey: 951.018 |
LCCN: 2021007755 |
Physical Information: 0.38" H x 6.14" W x 9.21" (0.83 lbs) 122 pages |
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
Publisher Description: This book challenges the long-established structure of Chinese history around dynasties, adopting a more organic approach which emphasises cultural and economic trends that transcend arbitrary dynastic boundaries. It argues that with the collapse of the Tang court and northern control over the holistic empire in the last decades of the ninth century, the now-autonomous kingdoms that filled the political vacuum in the south responded with a burst of innovative energy that helped set the stage for the economic and cultural transformations of the following Song dynasty. Moreover, it argues that these transformations and this economic and cultural innovation deeply affected the subsequent model of holistic empire which continues right up to the present and that therefore the interregnum century of division left a critically important legacy. |