Middle Imperial China, 900-1350: A New History

ISBN-13: 9781108430753 / Angielski

Linda Walton

Opis

In this highly readable and engaging survey of China's history from the tenth through the mid-fourteenth centuries, Linda Walton presents a framework for understanding both changes and continuities. While stressing China's Eurasian setting, she also addresses significant themes of world history, including gender, empire, the state, and religion.

Recenzje

'Pedagogically well-conceived for classroom use, this authoritative text surveys and synthesizes the past century of scholarship on the politics, economies, religions, and cultures of all the Sinitic and non-Sinitic societies of continental East Asia that predated the emergence of modern China – an essential book for the serious student of China's history.' Charles Hartman, The University of Albany

Spis treści

Introduction: Middle Imperial China in East Asian and world History; 1. The turbulent tenth century: transforming the East Asian world; 2. Song in a multipolar world; 3. Schooling, state, and society in song and Jin; 4. An economic revolution?; 5. Cities and urban life; 6. Religious transformations; 7. Ways of knowing: learning and knowledge; 8. The arts of culture; 9. Gendered and generational lives: women, men, children and families; 10. Mapping the built and natural environment; 11. Sustaining life and healing bodies: food and medicine; 12. The Mongol Yuan dynasty in China; 13. Yuan China in the Mongol Eurasian Empire.