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Culture and Power in the Reconstitution of the Chinese Realm, 200-600 / Scott Pearce, Audrey Spiro, Patricia Ebrey.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Harvard East Asian monographs ; 200.
- Harvard University Asia Center E-Book Collection ISBN: 9789004407077.
- Harvard East Asian Monographs ; 200
- Harvard University Asia Center E-Book Collection
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Social change.
- China--Civilization.
- China.
- Civilization.
- China--History--220-589.
- History.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource.
- Place of Publication:
- Leiden; Boston : BRILL, 2001.
- System Details:
- text file
- 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.
- Contents:
- Preliminary Material / Scott Pearce , Audrey Spiro and Patricia Ebrey
- Introduction / Scott Pearce , Audrey Spiro and Patricia Ebrey
- Tracing Change / Scott Pearce , Audrey Spiro and Patricia Ebrey
- Jiankang and the Commercial Empire of the Southern Dynasties / Shufen Liu
- To the Manner Born? / Robert Joe Cutter
- Encountering Ancients / Scott Pearce , Audrey Spiro and Patricia Ebrey
- A Dialogue with the Ancients / Donald Holzman
- Civil Service Examinations / Albert E. Dien
- Pruning Nettles / Scott Pearce , Audrey Spiro and Patricia Ebrey
- Hybrid Vigor / Audrey Spiro
- Form and Matter / Scott Pearce
- Creating Order / Scott Pearce , Audrey Spiro and Patricia Ebrey
- Lu Xiujing, Buddhism, and the First Daoist Canon / Stephen Bokenkamp
- Culling the Weeds and Selecting Prime Blossoms / David R. Knechtges
- Notes / Scott Pearce , Audrey Spiro and Patricia Ebrey
- Index / Scott Pearce , Audrey Spiro and Patricia Ebrey
- Harvard East Asian Monographs / Scott Pearce , Audrey Spiro and Patricia Ebrey.
- Notes:
- Description based on print version record.
- Other Format:
- Print version: Culture and Power in the Reconstitution of the Chinese Realm, 200-600,
- ISBN:
- 9781684173556
- 9780674005235
- OCLC:
- 1001953846
- Publisher Number:
- 10.1163/9781684173556 DOI
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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