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The Destruction of the Medieval Chinese Aristocracy / Nicolas Tackett.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Tackett, Nicolas, 1975- author.
- Series:
- Harvard University Studies in East Asian Law ; 93.
- Harvard University Asia Center E-Book Collection, ISBN ; 9789004407077.
- Harvard University Studies in East Asian Law ; 93
- Harvard University Asia Center E-Book Collection, ISBN: 9789004407077
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Aristocracy (Social class).
- Elite (Social sciences).
- Manners and customs.
- Power (Social sciences).
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource.
- Place of Publication:
- Leiden; Boston : BRILL, 2014.
- System Details:
- text file
- Contents:
- The Transformation of Medieval Elites 3
- Tomb Epitaphs as a Historical Source 13
- 1 The Bureaucratic Aristocracy of Medieval China 27
- Clan Lists and the Classification of the Great Clans 29
- The Demographic Expansion of the Medieval Aristocracy 36
- The Geographic Dispersal of Great Clan Descendants 44
- Bureaucratized Aristocrats 61
- Conclusion 67
- 2 The Geography of Power 70
- Localizing Elites 72
- Capital Elites 82
- National Elites in the Provinces 88
- Other Elite Migratory Pathways 98
- Conclusion 105
- 3 The Capital Elite Marriage Network 107
- Reconstructing Patrilines 108
- Localizing Patrilines 113
- Geographic Distribution and Size of the Late Tang Political Elite 119
- The Social Landscape of the Capitals 122
- Marriage Networks and Social Capital 129
- Conclusion 141
- 4 The Late Tang Provinces 146
- The Late Tang Provincial System and the Hebei Autonomous Provinces 149
- Recentralization after the Xianzong Restoration 155
- The Tang Political Oligarchy and the Provinces 160
- Social Mobility in Provincial Governments 170
- Provincial Cultures 178
- Conclusion 185
- 5 Huang Chao and the Destruction of the Medieval Aristocracy 187
- Chang'an under Huang Chao 191
- Devastation in Luoyang and the Provinces 206
- The Demise of the Tang Elite 218
- The Survivors and the New Structure of Power 231.
- Notes:
- Description based on print version record.
- Other Format:
- Print version: The Destruction of the Medieval Chinese Aristocracy,
- ISBN:
- 9781684170777
- 9780674492059
- OCLC:
- 999606460
- Publisher Number:
- 10.1163/9781684170777 DOI
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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