China during the Tang-Song Interregnum, 878–978

New Approaches to the Southern Kingdoms

By:

Hugh Clark

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Hardback

Series:

Asian States and Empires

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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.

Author Biography:

Hugh R. Clark is Professor Emeritus of History and East Asian Studies at Ursinus College, Pennsylvania

Release date Australia

June 30th, 2021

Author

Hugh Clark

Audiences

General (US: Trade)
Tertiary Education (US: College)

Illustrations

3 Tables, black and white; 1 Line drawings, black and white; 1 Illustrations, black and white

Pages

122

Series

Asian States and Empires

ISBN-13

9781032053622

Product ID

34690974

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