The Reunification of China: Peace Through War Under the Song Dynasty

ISBN-13: 9781107446793 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 309 str.

Peter Lorge

Opis

A groundbreaking work examining the military and political events that shaped the Song dynasty (960-1279) in China.

Recenzje

'This is the fullest account in any Western language of the political and military dimensions of the founding of the Song dynasty in 960 and the decades-long process of its consolidation and stabilisation, culminating in 1005. I doubt any Sinologist in the Western world knows more about tenth-century China than Lorge, and his meticulous and penetrating monograph on it will stand as the standard work for our time.' David Curtis Wright, University of Calgary

Spis treści

1. Introduction; 2. Historiography, methodology, and Song military and political history; 3. The pivot of the tenth century; 4. Rebuilding the empire; 5. The army and the creation of the Song dynasty; 6. Personal politics and the campaigns of conquest; 7. Separating war and politics; 8. Fighting to become emperor; 9. Failure and rebellion; 10. The end of the beginning; 11. Conclusion; Bibliography; Index.