The Medieval Chinese Oliogarchy

ISBN-13: 9780367017415 / Angielski / Twarda / 2020

David C Johnson (North Carolina State Un

Opis

Most modern scholars recognize that there were great differences between China's ruling elite in the middle and late traditional period; many have called the period up through the T'ang dynasty "aristocratic," in contrast to the more meritocratic and socially mobile age that followed. But until now there has been no serious effort to discover how the social elite was defined in medieval times, and who belonged to it. David Johnson discusses in detail medieval definitions of the social elite, and, with the help of several manuscripts of the ninth century, identifies the families that belonged to that class.

Spis treści

Introduction, Chapter I. Defining the Medieval Ruling Class: The Shih, Chapter II. Office and Status, Chapter III. Defining the Medieval Ruling Class: The Great Clans, Chapter IV. T'ang Genealogical Writings and Changes in the Status System, Chapter V. T'ang Lists of Great Families Discovered at Tun-huang, Location of Choronyms in T'ang Clan Lists (Map) Chapter VI. The Medieval Chinese Clan, Chapter VII. The Medieval Chinese Oligarchy

O autorze

David G. Johnson, assistant professor of Chinese history at Columbia University, specializes in the social history of China between the Northern and Southern dynasties and the Sung. He is also director of Columbia's new undergraduate program in East Asian Studies.