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State and Society in Early Medieval China
$23.28
Albert E. Dien
Book
State and Society in Early Medieval China
$23.28
Albert E. Dien
Book
State and Society in Early Medieval China Edited by Albert E. Dien Extending roughly from the final collapse of the Han Dynasty in A.D. 220 to the establishment of the T'ang Dynasty in 618, the Six Dynasties period in China is commonly compared to the "Dark Ages" of European history. The political history of the period is a dismal record of disunity, intrigue, strife, and alien encroachments, seeming to amount to little more than a confusing series of dynastic names. Given such an array of fragile ands short-lived dynasties, it is natural to attempt to summarize the period, but the inadequate state of our knowledge (the historical record is sparse, fragmentary, and very difficult to interpret) makes such an attempt at best provisional. The twelve essays in this volume are therefore to be viewed as attempts to further our knowledge of the period and to test what few generalizations we do have. The authors address a wide range of problems, including the composition of the ruling elites, the evolution of eminent families, and the nature of the state and its administration. For example, previous scholarship has portrayed the period as one dominated by powerful aristocratic clans; a revisionist view presented here argues that the leading families were neither powerful, nor aristocratic, nor clans. In almost every case the topics of the individual papers are treated here for the first time in English The period of the Six Dynasties suggests fragmentation and disorder, and yet it is now generally recognized that the so-called fragmentation simply meant that the level of cohesion had shifted from a national to a regional level. To a large extent, what was involved were changes in the ways in which various social and political groups related to one another. The focus of this volume, then, is to explore the interfaces within Six Dynasties social and political organizations and to trace the changes in the these complex and often puzzling relationships. The editor suggests that in these developments are to be found the roots of T'ang greatness. The contributors are William Crowell, Albert E. Dien, Patricia Ebrey, Dennis Grafflin, Jennifer Holmgren, Whalen Lai, Carl Leban, Mao Hankuang, Richard Mather, Robert M. Somers, and Tang Changru. Albert E. Dien is Professor of Chinese at Stanford University. This is a reproduction edition from a scanned copy of the following original edition: Title State and society in early medieval China Author Albert E. Dien Editor Albert E. Dien Contributor Albert E. Dien Edition illustrated Publisher Stanford University Press, 1991 ISBN 0804717451, 9780804717458 Length 414 pages Find more reproduction works from Stanford University Press at QOOP.com
