| Description |
1 online resource (xx, 850 pages) : maps |
| Series |
The Cambridge history of China ; volume 3, part 1 |
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Cambridge history of China ; v. 3, pt 1.
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| Contents |
Introduction / Denis Twitchett -- The Sui dynasty (581-617) / Arthur F. Wright -- The founding of the T'ang dynasty: Kao-tsu (reign 618-26) / Howard J. Wechsler -- T'ai-tsung (reign 626-49) the consolidator / Howard J. Wechsler -- Kao-tsung (reign 649-83) and the empress Wu: the inheritor and the usurper / Denis Twitchett and Howard J. Wechsler -- The reigns of the empress Wu, Chung-tsung and Jui-tsung (684-712) / Richard W.L. Guisso -- Hsüan-tsung (reign 712-56) / Denis Twitchett -- Court and province in mid- and late T'ang / C.A. Peterson -- Court politics in late T'ang times / Michael T. Dalby -- The end of the T'ang / Robert M. Somers |
| Summary |
The Cambridge History of China is one of the most far-reaching works of international scholarship ever undertaken, exploring the main developments in political, social, economic and intellectual life from the Ch'in empire to the present day. The contributors are specialists from the international community of sinological scholars. Many of the accounts break new ground; all are based on fresh research. The works are written not only with students and scholars but also with the general reader in mind. No knowledge of Chinese is assumed, though for readers of Chinese, proper and other names are identified with their characters in the index. Numerous maps and tables illustrate the text. Volume 3, covers the second great period of unified imperial power, 589-906, when China established herself as the centre of a wider cultural sphere, embracing Japan, Korea and Vietnam. It was an era in which there was a great deal of rapid social and economic change, and in which literature and the arts reached new heights of attainment |
| Notes |
General editors : Denis Twitchett and John K. Fairbank |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and glossary-index |
| Notes |
English |
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Online resource; title from PDF title page (Cambridge, viewed Apr. 3, 2020) |
| Subject |
Tang Dynasty (China)
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| SUBJECT |
China -- History -- Sui dynasty, 581-618.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85024058
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China -- History -- Tang dynasty, 618-907.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85024059
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| Subject |
China
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Twitchett, Denis Crispin, editor
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Fairbank, John King, 1907-1991, editor.
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| ISBN |
1139055941 |
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9781139055949 |
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