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- Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms
- Book
- 2011
- Published by: The Chinese University of Hong Kong Press
summary
The period of the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms (907-960) has long been treated as an anomaly in the history of China, an age of great disunity between the empires of the Tang and the Song dynasties. Breaking with previous scholarship on China's middle period, this edited volume presents individual studies that focus on the art, culture, and politics of the interregnum, challenging underlying assumptions about the unitary nature of dynastic culture and its value as a category of historical analysis. It understands these decades as a time of important transition in which the incipient cultural shifts of the mature Tang dynasty turned into the foundations of Song society. Consequently it highlights the complex narrative processes that gave birth to Song culture.
Table of Contents
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- Title Page
- p. 1
- Dedication
- pp. 3-4
- List of Contributors
- pp. 5-6
- Introduction
- pp. 1-14
- Chronology of Dynasties, Kingdoms and States
- pp. 243-244
Additional Information
ISBN
9789629969264
Related ISBN(s)
9789629964184
MARC Record
OCLC
868220576
Pages
264
Launched on MUSE
2014-01-01
Language
English
Open Access
No