The Cambridge History of China: Volume 2, The Six Dynasties, 220589 by Albert E Dien

The Cambridge History of China: Volume 2, The Six Dynasties, 220589 by Albert E Dien

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An international team of leading scholars provide the most comprehensive and extensive English-language treatment of China's Six Dynasties period (220–589 CE). The essays focus not only on the period's complicated political history, but also its vibrant and diverse society, transformative arts, and the arrival and impact of organized religions.

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The Cambridge History of China: Volume 2, The Six Dynasties, 220589 by Albert E Dien

The Six Dynasties Period (220-589 CE) is one of the most complex in Chinese history. Written by leading scholars from across the globe, the essays in this volume cover nearly every aspect of the period, including politics, foreign relations, warfare, agriculture, gender, art, philosophy, material culture, local society, and music. While acknowledging the era's political chaos, these essays indicate that this was a transformative period when Chinese culture was significantly changed and enriched by foreign peoples and ideas. It was also a time when history and literature became recognized as independent subjects and religion was transformed by the domestication of Buddhism and the formation of organized Daoism. Many of the trends that shaped the rest of imperial China's history have their origins in this era, such as the commercial vibrancy of southern China, the separation of history and literature from classical studies, and the growing importance of women in politics and religion.
'In sum, this volume is not just an historical account of the Six Dynasties, but also a veritable encyclopedia of Early Medieval China, come to fruition through a long-standing pursuit to better understand this immensely formative period of Chinese history-a period, which has been long neglected or marginalized by scholars subscribing to the teleological construct of China' Helwig Schmidt-Glintzer, Monumenta Serica
Albert E. Dien is Professor Emeritus, Stanford University, California. Keith N. Knapp is Professor of History, The Citadel, The Military College of South Carolina.
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ISBN 13 9781107020771
ISBN 10 1107020778
Titel The Cambridge History of China: Volume 2, The Six Dynasties, 220589
Autor Albert E Dien
Serie The Cambridge History Of China
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Bindungsart Hardback
Verlag Cambridge University Press
Erscheinungsjahr 2019-11-07
Seitenanzahl 960
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