T'ang China

The Rise of the East in World History

Häftad, Engelska, 2004

AvS. Adshead,Samuel Adrian M. Adshead

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Rethinking world history has become a major concern of a significant number of historians over recent decades. In T'ang China S.A.M. Adshead engages with current debates by looking at the forces which have shaped China throughout its history. By offering a survey of T'ang China (618 970 AD), the book asks the questions: How did China come to occupy a central place in the world economy in pre modern times what forces helped shape China during this period, known by the Chinese as their 'golden age' how will these forces alter China's place in the world as we move into the Twenty First century? More broadly, the book explores the ways in which regional changes have, throughout history, shifted the balance of the world, politically, culturally and economically.

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Utgivningsdatum2004-08-03
Mått140 x 216 x 14 mm
Vikt328 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor233
Upplaga2004
FörlagPalgrave USA
ISBN9781403934574

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S.A.M. ADSHEAD is Professor Emeritus in History at the University of Canterbury in Christchurch, New Zealand. He was educated at Stowe School and Christ Church, Oxford, and studied Chinese History at Harvard University. He is the author of The Modernization of the Chinese Salt Administration, Province and Politics in Late Imperial China, Salt and Civilization, Central Asia in World History and The Philosophy of History in Nineteenth-Century England and Beyond.

Introduction Polemic: Before the Rise of the East André Gunder Frank's Concept of the World Order A Critique of André Gunder Frank's Concept of the World Order The Preponderance of the West Politics: The Genius of T'ang The Sui-T'ang Refoundation The Silver T'ang Restoration The Sung Counter-Revolution Contrast with the West Economy: China takes Centre Stage The Milieu of Chinese Economic Growth 500-1000 The Motors of Chinese Economic Growth 500-1000 The Management of Chinese Economic Growth 500-1000 Cross-Economic Comparison 500-1000 Society: A Multiple China The Interface Between the Economy and Society The Matrix of Social Activity: Family and Friends An Anthropology of Chinese Marriage Non-Kinship Institutions: A Multiple Associationism Cross-Social Comparisons 500-1000 Intellect: China's Complex Pluralism China's Intellectual Complexity China's Intellectual Pluralism Eurasian Intellectual Comparisons 500-1000 Return to the West: Reflux and Prognosis Politics 500-1000 Economy 1000-1500 Society 1000-1500 Intellect 1000-1500 Prognosis

'Any student interested in macro-history, as well as in the history of China in pre-modern times, will be well rewarded by reading it.' - Professor John S. Gregory, former Professor of History, La Trobe University, Melbourne, Australia 'T'ang China is historical argument at its best... The Adsheadian view of world history is wonderfully integrated and distinctive, and will stimulate debate for years to come.' - Brian Moloughney, Professor of History, University of Otago, New Zealand, and editor of the New Zealand Journal of Asian Studies