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1 online resource (ix, 363 pages) |
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polychrome |
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text file |
| Summary |
"This collection provides new ways to understand how state power was exercised during the overlapping Liao, Song, Jin, and Yuan dynasties. Through a set of case studies, it examines large questions concerning dynastic legitimacy, factional strife, the relationship between the literati and the state, and the value of centralization. How was state power exercised? Why did factional strife periodically become ferocious? Which problems did reformers seek to address? Could subordinate groups resist the state? How did politics shape the sources that survive? The nine essays explore key elements of state power, ranging from armies, taxes, and imperial patronage to factional struggles, officials' personal networks, and ways to secure control of conquered territory. Drawing on new sources, research methods, and historical perspectives, the contributors illuminate the institutional side of state power while confronting evidence of instability and change--of ways to gain, lose, or exercise power"--Provided by publisher. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Part 1. The ruling house -- Invoking higher authorities : Song Taizong's quest for imperial legitimacy and its architectural legacy / Tracy Miller -- Cao Xun and the legend of emperor Taizu's oath / Charles Hartman -- Part 2. The literati and the political system -- Governing a multicentered state : prefects and their networks in the 1040s and 1210s / Song Chen -- Anatomies of reform : the Qingli-era reforms of Fan Zhongyan and the new policies of Wang Anshi compared / Paul Jakov Smith -- Bureaucratic politics and commemorative biography : the epitaphs of Fan Zhongyan / Cong Ellen Zhang -- Part 3. Statecraft theory -- Northern Song reformist thought and its sources : Wang Anshi and Mencius / Li Huarui -- Debates on just taxation in Ma Duanlin's comprehensive survey / Jaeyoon Song -- Part 4. State power in practice -- Soldier mutinies and resistance during the northern Song / Elad Alyagon -- State-forced relocations in China, 900-1300 -- Patricia Buckley Ebrey -- Glossary of Chinese characters. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
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China -- History -- Liao dynasty, 947-1125.
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China -- History -- Song dynasty, 960-1279.
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China -- History -- Jin dynasty, 1115-1234.
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China -- History -- Yuan dynasty, 1260-1368.
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State, The -- History -- To 1500.
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State, The. |
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History. |
| Chronological Term |
To 1500 |
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Power (Social sciences) -- China -- History -- To 1500.
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Power (Social sciences) |
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China. |
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Political culture -- China -- History -- To 1500.
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Political culture. |
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Literature and state -- China -- History -- To 1500.
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Literature and state. |
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Civil-military relations -- China -- History -- To 1500.
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Civil-military relations. |
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Social change -- China -- History -- To 1500.
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Social change. |
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History.
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Electronic books.
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| Added Author |
Ebrey, Patricia Buckley, 1947- editor.
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Smith, Paul Jakov, 1947- editor.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: State power in China, 900-1325. Seattle : University of Washington Press, 2016 9780295998107 (DLC) 2016001985 (OCoLC)931798253 |
| ISBN |
9780295998480 electronic book |
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0295998482 electronic book |
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9780295998107 |
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0295998105 |
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