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China's cosmopolitan empire : the Tang dynasty / Mark Edward Lewis.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Lewis, Mark Edward, 1954-
- Series:
- History of Imperial China
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- China--History--Tang dynasty, 618-907.
- China.
- China--Civilization.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (367 p.)
- Other Title:
- Tang dynasty
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge, Mass. : Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2009.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- The Tang dynasty is often called China's "golden age," a period of commercial, religious, and cultural connections from Korea and Japan to the Persian Gulf, and a time of unsurpassed literary creativity. Mark Lewis captures a dynamic era in which the empire reached its greatest geographical extent under Chinese rule, painting and ceramic arts flourished, women played a major role both as rulers and in the economy, and China produced its finest lyric poets in Wang Wei, Li Bo, and Du Fu.
- Contents:
- The geography of the Tang empire
- The restored empire
- Warlords and monopolists in late Tang China
- Tang urban life
- Rural society
- Tang China and the outer world
- Kinship
- Religion
- Tang writing
- Conclusion: the tenth-century transition.
- Notes:
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [317]-340) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780674054196
- 0674054199
- OCLC:
- 648759716
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