| Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms Contributor(s): Lorge, Peter (Editor) |
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ISBN: 962996418X ISBN-13: 9789629964184 Publisher: Chinese University of Hong Kong Press OUR PRICE: $51.48 Product Type: Hardcover Published: October 2011 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - History | Asia - China |
| Dewey: 951.018 |
| Physical Information: 0.8" H x 6.1" W x 9.1" (1.30 lbs) 288 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - Chinese |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: The period of the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms (907-960 B.C.E) has long been treated as an anomaly in the history of China, an age of great disunity between the empires of the Tang and the Song dynasties. Breaking with previous scholarship on China's middle period, this book presents individual studies that focus on the art, culture, and politics of the interregnum, challenging underlying assumptions about the unitary nature of dynastic culture and its value as a category of historical analysis. This volume understands these decades as a time of important transition in which the incipient cultural shifts of the mature Tang dynasty turned into the foundations of Song society. Consequently it highlights the complex narrative processes that gave birth to Song culture. |