Five dynasties and ten kingdoms / edited by Peter Lorge.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Lorge, Peter Allan, 1967- editor.

Anne and Joseph Trachtman Memorial Book Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

China--History--Five dynasties and the Ten kingdoms, 907-979.

China.

History.

Physical Description:

ix, 252 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Hong Kong : Chinese University Press, [2011]

Summary:

"The period of the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms (907-960) 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 edited volume 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. It 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."--Publisher's web site.

Contents:

Introduction / Peter Lorge Lorge, Peter 1

The Origins of This Volume 3

The Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms as a Period 5

Conclusion and Beginning 10

Notes 12

Who Wants to Be an Emperor? Zhao Dejun $, Youzhou $ and the Liao $ / Naomi Standen Standen, Naomi 15

Loyalty, Legitimacy and Historiography 17

A Different World 19

The Good and Faithful Servant 23

Surviving the Succession 30

Choices 32

Notes 41

Scoundrels, Rogues, and Refugees: The Founders of the Ten Kingdoms in the Late Ninth Century / Hugh R. Clark Clark, Hugh R. 47

An Analytical Framework: Parsing Words 48

The Founders 51

Conclusions 67

Notes 70

Han Xizai (902-970): An Eccentric Life in Exciting Times / Johannes L. Kurz Kurz, Johannes L. 79

Han Xizai in the Twentieth Century 80

Early Career 81

Han Xizai's Career under the First Southern Tang Emperor 82

Involvement in Politics 83

Private Life 86

Conclusion 92

Notes 93

Lessons from Paintings at the Periphery: The Murals from Baoshan Tomb 2 and Five Dynasties Art History / De-nin D. Lee Lee, De-nin D. 101

Introduction 101

The Murals from Baoshan Tomb 2 102

Some Contexts for Art Historical Analysis and Interpretation 109

Lessons from Painting at the Periphery 114

Conclusion 117

Notes 119

"The Usurper's Empty Names": Spatial Organization and State Power in the Tang-Song Transition / Ruth Mostern Mostern, Ruth 125

Introduction 125

Territory and Authority in the Late Tang: A Geographical Perspective on the Rise of Provincial Power 128

Control over Territory during the Five Dynasties 132

Recreating an Empire 144

An Empire for a Continent: The Story of Guangnan 154

Conclusion 159

Notes 160

Something Old, Something New, Something Borrowed: Local Style in the Architecture of Tenth-Century China / Tracy Miller Miller, Tracy 167

Something Old: Tang Architecture in Shanxi and Its Legacy in the Tenth Century 169

Something New? Tenth-Century Architecture in China's Southeast 195

Something Borrowed: Architecture and Cultural Politics 208

Conclusion 213

Notes 214

The End of the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms / Peter Lorge Lorge, Peter 223

The Later Zhou Dynasty (951-960) 225

Song Taizu and the Founding of the Song Dynasty 227

Song Taizong and the Foundation of Song Culture 232

Song Zhenzong and the Creation of Song Imperial Culture 234

Song Zhenzong and the Dawn of Song Imperial Culture 238

Conclusion 240

Notes 242

Chronology of Dynasties, Kingdoms and States 243.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Anne and Joseph Trachtman Memorial Book Fund.

ISBN:

9789629964184

962996418X

OCLC:

748743890

Online:

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