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The Song-Yuan-Ming transition in Chinese history / Paul Jakov Smith and Richard von Glahn, editors.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Harvard East Asian monographs ; 221.
- Harvard East Asian monographs ; 221
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- China--Civilization--960-1644.
- China.
- Civilization.
- China--Social conditions--960-1644.
- Social conditions.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (x, 528 pages) : illustrations, maps.
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Asia Center : Distributed by Harvard University Press, 2003.
- System Details:
- text file
- Summary:
- This volume seeks to study the connections between two well-studied epochs in Chinese history: the mid-imperial era of the Tang and Song (ca. 800-1270) and the late imperial era of the late Ming and Qing (1550-1900). Both eras are seen as periods of explosive change, particularly in economic activity, characterized by the emergence of new forms of social organization and a dramatic expansion in knowledge and culture. The task of establishing links between these two periods has been impeded by a lack of knowledge of the intervening Mongol Yuan dynasty (1271-1368). This historiographical "black hole" has artificially interrupted the narrative of Chinese history and bifurcated it into two distinct epochs.
- Contents:
- Problematizing the Song-Yuan-Ming transition / Paul Jakov Smith
- Imagining pre-modern China / Richard von Glahn
- Impressions of the Song-Yuan-Ming transition: the evidence from Biji memoirs / Paul Jakov Smith
- Did the Mongols matter? territory, power, and the intelligentsia in China from the northern Song to the early Ming / John W. Dardess
- Was there a 'fourteenth-century turning point'? Population, land, technology, and farm management / Li Bozhong
- Towns and temples: urban growth and decline in the Yangzi Delta, 1100-1400 / Richard von Glahn
- Women and Confucianism from Song to Ming: the institutionalization of patrilineality / Bettine Birge
- Neo-Confucianism and local society, twelfth to sixteenth century: a case study / Peter K. Bol
- Mashaben: commercial publishing in Jianyang from the Song to the Ming / Lucille Chia
- Text and ideology: Ming editors and northern drama / Stephen H. West
- Medical learning from the Song to the Ming / Angela Ki-che Leung.
- Notes:
- Includes papers presented at Lake Arrowhead conference, held June 5-11, 1997 at UCLA Conference Center.
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 469-512) and index.
- Electronic reproduction. New York Available via World Wide Web.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9781684173815
- 1684173817
- Publisher Number:
- 99979254460
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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