Middle Imperial China, 900–1350

A New History

Häftad, Engelska, 2023

Av Linda Walton, Linda (Portland State University) Walton

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In this highly readable and engaging work, Linda Walton presents a dynamic survey of China's history from the tenth through the mid-fourteenth centuries from the founding of the Song dynasty through the Mongol conquest when Song China became part of the Mongol Empire and Marco Polo made his famous journey to the court of the Great Khan. Adopting a thematic approach, she highlights the political, social, economic, intellectual, and cultural changes and continuities of the period often conceptualized as 'Middle Imperial China'. Particular emphasis is given to themes that inform scholarship on world history: religion, the state, the dynamics of empire, the transmission of knowledge, the formation of political elites, gender, and the family. Consistent coverage of peoples beyond the borders – Khitan, Tangut, Jurchen, and Mongol, among others – provides a broader East Asian context and introduces a more nuanced, integrated representation of China's past.

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Utgivningsdatum2023-08-03
Mått152 x 229 x 22 mm
Vikt577 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
SerieNew Approaches to Asian History
Antal sidor484
FörlagCambridge University Press
ISBN9781108430753

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Introduction: Middle Imperial China in East Asian and world History; 1. The turbulent tenth century: transforming the East Asian world; 2. Song in a multipolar world; 3. Schooling, state, and society in song and Jin; 4. An economic revolution?; 5. Cities and urban life; 6. Religious transformations; 7. Ways of knowing: learning and knowledge; 8. The arts of culture; 9. Gendered and generational lives: women, men, children and families; 10. Mapping the built and natural environment; 11. Sustaining life and healing bodies: food and medicine; 12. The Mongol Yuan dynasty in China; 13. Yuan China in the Mongol Eurasian Empire.

'Middle Imperial China, 900-1350 is an erudite and accessible addition to the historical literature on Middle Period China. Professor Walton presents us with a multipolar world in which the Song dynasty was challenged by its powerful neighbors to the north and west and finally succumbed to the Mongols, whose Yuan dynasty also receives generous treatment at the end. The book's topical chapters on developments in the economy, society, cities, learning, thought, religion, the arts, women, and the built environment represent an impressive synthesis of the scholarship on these varied topics. As an excellent introduction into the history of this important period, this will be welcomed by specialists and non-specialists alike.' John W. Chaffee, Binghamton University