A history of China [[electronic resource] /] / Morris Rossabi

• Autore: Rossabi Morris
• Pubblicazione: Malden, Mass., : John Wiley and Sons, 2014
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (454 p.)
• Disciplina: 951
• Soggetto geografico: China History
• Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: A History of China; Copyright; Contents; Series Editor's Preface; Preface; Acknowledgments; List of Illustrations; List of Maps; A Note on Romanization; Part I China among "Barbarians"; 1 Early History, to 1027 BCE; Land and Settlement; Early Mankind; Agricultural Revolution in the Neolithic Era; Xia: The First Dynasty?; The Shang and the Origins of Chinese Civilization; Oracle Bones; Ritual Objects as Historical Sources; Shang Society; Notes; Further Reading; 2 Classical China, 1027-256 BCE; "Feudalism"?; Changes in Social Structure; Political Instability in the Eastern Zhou ; Transformations in the EconomyHundred Schools of Thought; Daoism; Popular Religions; Confucianism; Mohism; Legalism; Book of Odes and Book of Documents; Secularization of Arts; Notes; Further Reading; 3 The First Chinese Empires, 221 BCE-220 CE; Development of the Qin State; Qin Achievements; Failures of the Qin; Han and New Institutions; Han Foreign Relations; Emperor Wu's Domestic Policies and Their Ramifications; Wang Mang: Reformer or Usurper?; Restoration of a Weaker Han Dynasty; Spiritual and Philosophical Developments in the Han; Han Literature and Art; Further Reading ; 4 Chaos and Religious and Political Responses, 220-581Three Kingdoms; Rise of South China; Foreigners and North China; Northern Wei; Spiritual Developments, Post-Han; Buddhism Enters China; Literature, Science, and the Arts in a Period of Division; Notes; Further Reading; Part II China among Equals; 5 Restoration of Empire under Sui and Tang, 581-907; Sui: First Step in Restoration; Disastrous Foreign Campaigns; Origins of the Tang; Taizong: The Greatest Tang Emperor; Tang Expansionism; Irregular Successions and the Empress Wu; Tang Cosmopolitanism; Arrival of Foreign Religions ; Glorious Tang ArtsDecline of the Tang; Tang Faces Rebellions; Uyghur Empire and Tang; Tang's Continuing Decline; Suppression of Buddhism; Final Collapse; Efflorescence of Tang Culture; Notes; Further Reading; 6 Post-Tang Society and the Glorious Song, 907-1279; Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms; Song: A Lesser Empire; A New Song Elite; Neo-Confucianism: A New Philosophy; Attempts at Reform; Women and the Song; The Khitans and the Liao Dynasty; Expansion of Khitan Territory; Preservation of Khitan Identity; Fall of the Liao; Xia and Jin: Two Foreign Dynasties; Song Arts ; Southern Song Economic and Cultural Sophistication and Political InstabilityNotes; Further Reading; Part III China and the Mongol World; 7 Mongol Rule in China, 1234-1368; Rise of Chinggis Khan; Legacy of Chinggis Khan; Expansion and Early Rule of Empire; Sorghaghtani Beki, Möngke, and Khubilai; Unification of China; Khubilai's Policies; Multiethnic and Multireligious China; Khubilai and Chinese Culture; Decline of the Yuan; Legacy of the Mongols; Notes; Further Reading; 8 Ming: Isolationism and Involvement in the World, 1368-1644; A More Powerful State; Opening to the Outside World ; A Costly Failure
• Sommario/riassunto: Capturing China's past in all its complexity, this multi-faceted history portrays China in the context of a larger global world, while incorporating the narratives of Chinese as well as non-Chinese ethnic groups and discussing people traditionally left out of the story-peasants, women, merchants, and artisans. Offers a complete political, economic, social, and cultural history of China, covering the major events and trendsWritten in a clear and uncomplicated style by a distinguished historian with over four decades of experience teaching undergraduates</li
• Titolo autorizzato: A history of China
• ISBN: 1-118-47345-0; 1-55786-078-5; 1-118-47344-2
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910452953603321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Blackwell history of the world.