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Record Nr.

UNINA9910460197203321

Autore

Lewis Mark Edward <1954->

Titolo

China's cosmopolitan empire [[electronic resource] ] : the Tang dynasty / / Mark Edward Lewis

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cambridge, Mass., : Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2009

ISBN

0-674-05419-9

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (367 p.)

Collana

History of Imperial China

Disciplina

951/.017

Soggetti

HISTORY / Asia / China

Electronic books.

China History Tang dynasty, 618-907

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [317]-340) and index.

Nota di contenuto

The geography of the Tang empire -- The restored empire -- Warlords and monopolists in late Tang China -- Tang urban life -- Rural society -- Tang China and the outer world -- Kinship -- Religion -- Tang writing -- Conclusion: the tenth-century transition.

Sommario/riassunto

The Tang dynasty is often called China's "golden age," a period of commercial, religious, and cultural connections from Korea and Japan to the Persian Gulf, and a time of unsurpassed literary creativity. Mark Lewis captures a dynamic era in which the empire reached its greatest geographical extent under Chinese rule, painting and ceramic arts flourished, women played a major role both as rulers and in the economy, and China produced its finest lyric poets in Wang Wei, Li Bo, and Du Fu.