LEADER 02518nam 22005774a 450 001 9910460197203321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a0-674-05419-9 024 7 $a10.4159/9780674054196 035 $a(CKB)2670000000040435 035 $a(OCoLC)648759716 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebrary10402507 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000413957 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)12108397 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000413957 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10394559 035 $a(PQKB)11092334 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3300843 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3300843 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10402507 035 $a(DE-B1597)574515 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780674054196 035 $a(EXLCZ)992670000000040435 100 $a20080918d2009 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aChina's cosmopolitan empire$b[electronic resource] $ethe Tang dynasty /$fMark Edward Lewis 210 $aCambridge, Mass. $cBelknap Press of Harvard University Press$d2009 215 $a1 online resource (367 p.) 225 0 $aHistory of Imperial China 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 $a0-674-03306-X 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [317]-340) and index. 327 $aThe 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. 330 $aThe 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. 606 $aHISTORY / Asia / China$2bisacsh 607 $aChina$xHistory$yTang dynasty, 618-907 608 $aElectronic books. 615 7$aHISTORY / Asia / China. 676 $a951/.017 700 $aLewis$b Mark Edward$f1954-$0777877 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910460197203321 996 $aChina's cosmopolitan empire$92470851 997 $aUNINA