| Description |
1 online resource (xvi, 359 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations, map. |
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polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Series |
Harvard East Asian monographs ; 200
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Harvard East Asian monographs ; 200.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Jiankang and the commercial empire of the southern dynasties / Shufen Liu -- To the manner born? / Robert Joe Cutter -- Dialogue with the ancients / Donald Holzman -- Civil service examinations / Albert Dien -- Hybrid vigor / Audrey Spiro -- Form and matter / Scott Pearce --Lu Xiujing, buddhism, and the first daoist canon / Stephen Bokenkamp -- Culling the weeds and selecting prime blossoms / David R. Knechtges. |
| Summary |
"China's early medieval age - the time between the fall of the Han in A.D. 220 and the Sui's reunification of the realm in 589 - receives short shrift in most accounts of Chinese history, which typically characterize it in negative fashion as an age of disorder and dislocation, ethnic strife and bloody court battles, an era whose only notable achievement was the introduction of Buddhism. But despite the violence and volatility, these centuries were a time of extraordinary cultural flowering, which reshaped and deeply enriched Chinese civilization. Culture and cultural change are the primary focuses of the eight essays in this volume." "The authors of these essays address the growth of cities, literary theory, the civil service examinations, Buddhist art, governmental reform, Daoism, and literary anthologies. Although they take diverse viewpoints as they seek to chart the changes that unfolded across the early medieval age, their work is bound together by several overarching themes: evolving notions of the nature of the center and its relationship to the periphery, of boundaries between groups and regions: ideas of order and the re-creation of order; and views on connections to the past and the significance of historical inheritance. These are issues that were central to the work of reconstituting a Chinese realm that was both culturally and politically coherent."--Jacket |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
China -- Civilization.
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China. |
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Civilization. |
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China -- History -- 220-589.
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History. |
| Chronological Term |
220-589 |
| Subject |
HISTORY -- Military -- Other. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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History.
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| Added Author |
Pearce, Scott, editor.
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Spiro, Audrey G., editor.
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Ebrey, Patricia Buckley, 1947- editor.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Culture and power in the reconstitution of the Chinese realm, 200-600. Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Asia Center, 2001 0674005236 (DLC) 2001024046 (OCoLC)46319691 |
| ISBN |
9781684173556 (electronic book) |
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1684173558 (electronic book) |
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0674005236 |
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9780674005235 |
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