History of Imperial China – serie
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China between Empires
The Northern and Southern Dynasties
Av Mark Edward Lewis, Timothy Brook
Häftad, 2011
286 kr
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After the collapse of the Han dynasty in the third century CE, China divided along a north-south line. Mark Lewis traces the changes that both underlay and resulted from this split in a period that saw the geographic redefinition of China, more engagement with the outside world, significant changes …
Early Chinese Empires
Qin and Han
Av Mark Edward Lewis, Timothy Brook
Häftad, 2010
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233 kr
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In 221 BC, the First Emperor of Qin unified the lands that would become the heart of a Chinese empire. Though forged by conquest, this vast domain depended for its political survival on a fundamental reshaping of Chinese culture. With this informative book, we are present at the creation of an …
Age of Confucian Rule
The Song Transformation of China
Häftad, 2011
286 kr
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Just over a thousand years ago, the Song dynasty emerged as the most advanced civilization on earth. Within two centuries, China was home to nearly half of all humankind. In this concise history, we learn why the inventiveness of this era has been favorably compared with the European Renaissance, …
China’s Cosmopolitan Empire
The Tang Dynasty
Av Mark Edward Lewis, Timothy Brook
Häftad, 2012
258 kr
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The Tang dynasty is often called China’s “golden age,” a period of commercial, religious, and cultural connections from Korea and Japan to the Persian Gulf, and a time of unsurpassed literary creativity. Mark Lewis captures a dynamic era in which the empire reached its greatest geographical extent …
China's Last Empire
The Great Qing
Av William T. Rowe, Timothy Brook
Häftad, 2012
233 kr
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In a brisk revisionist history, William Rowe challenges the standard narrative of Qing China as a decadent, inward-looking state that failed to keep pace with the modern West.The Great Qing was the second major Chinese empire ruled by foreigners. Three strong Manchu emperors worked diligently to …
Troubled Empire
China in the Yuan and Ming Dynasties
Av Timothy Brook, Timothy Brook
Häftad, 2013
233 kr
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The Mongol takeover in the 1270s changed the course of Chinese history. The Confucian empire—a millennium and a half in the making—was suddenly thrust under foreign occupation. What China had been before its reunification as the Yuan dynasty in 1279 was no longer what it would be in the future. …
