Format:
Online-Ressource (xx, 789 p)
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digital, PDF file
Edition:
Online-Ausg. c2008 Cambridge histories online
ISBN:
9781139055949
Content:
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
Note:
Title from PDF title page (viewed on 10 July, 2009)
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Includes bibliographical references
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Introduction
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The Sui dynasty (581-617)
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The founding of the T'ang dynasty: Kao-tsu (reign 618-26)
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T'ai-tsung (reign 626-49) the consolidator
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Kao-tsung (reign 649-83) and the empress Wu: the inheritor and the usurper
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The reigns of the empress Wu, Chung-tsung and Jui-tsung (684-712)
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Hsüan-tsung (reign 712-56)
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Court and province in mid- and late T'ang
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Court politics in late T'ang times
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The end of the T'ang
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System requirements: Adobe Acrobat Reader.
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Mode of access: World Wide Web.
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0511467427
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780511467424
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780521214469
Language:
English
DOI:
10.1017/CHOL9780521214469
Author information:
Twitchett, Denis Crispin 1925-2006
