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China between empires : the northern and southern dynasties / Mark Edward Lewis.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Lewis, Mark Edward, 1954-
- Series:
- History of imperial China.
- History of imperial China
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- China--History--220-589.
- China.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (351 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge, Mass. : Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2009.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- After the collapse of the Han dynasty in the third century CE, China divided along a north-south line. This book traces the changes that both underlay and resulted from this split in a period that saw the geographic redefinition of China, more engagement with the outside world, significant changes to family life, developments in the literary and social arenas, and the introduction of new religions.
- Contents:
- The geography of the north and south China
- The rise of the great families
- Military dynasticism
- Urban transformation
- Rural life
- China and the outer world
- Redefining kinship
- Daoism and Buddhism
- Writing.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [299]-324) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780674265400
- 0674265408
- 9780674040151
- 0674040155
- OCLC:
- 432671549
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