Culture and power in the reconstitution of the Chinese realm, 200-600 / Scott Pearce, Audrey Spiro, and Patricia Ebrey, editors.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Pearce, Scott.

Spiro, Audrey G.

Ebrey, Patricia Buckley, 1947-

Series:

Harvard East Asian monographs ; 200.

Harvard East Asian monographs ; 200

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

China--Civilization.

China.

Civilization.

China--History--220-589.

History.

Physical Description:

xvi, 359 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, map ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Asia Center : Distributed by Harvard University Press, 2001.

Summary:

The period between the fall of the Han in 220 and the reunification of the Chinese realm in the late sixth century receives short shrift in most accounts of Chinese history. The period is usually characterized as one of disorder and dislocation, ethnic strife, and bloody court struggles. Its lone achievement, according to many accounts, is the introduction of Buddhism. In the eight essays of Culture and Power in the Reconstitution of the Chinese Realm, 200-600, the authors seek to chart the actual changes occurring in this period of disunion, and to show its relationship to what preceded and followed it. This exploration of a neglected period in Chinese history addresses such diverse subjects as the eraUs economy, Daoism, Buddhist art, civil service examinations, forays into literary theory, and responses to its own history.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0674005236

OCLC:

46319691