Medieval Chinese Oliogar/H

ISBN-13: 9780367167288 / Angielski / Miękka / 2022 / 296 str.

David C. Johnson

Opis

Most modern scholars recognize that there were great differences between China's ruling elite in the middle and late traditional period; but until now there has been no serious effort to discover how the social elite was defined in medieval times.

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.