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November 14, 2023 | History

"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."--BOOK JACKET.

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Culture and Power in the Reconstitution of the Chinese Realm, 200-600 (Harvard East Asian Monographs)
October 1, 2001, Harvard University Asia Center
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Culture and power in the reconstitution of the Chinese realm, 200-600
2001, Harvard University Asia Center, Distributed by Harvard University Press
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Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Published in
Cambridge, Mass
Series
Harvard East Asian monographs -- 200
Other Titles
Culture and power

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Library of Congress
DS747.42 .C84 2001, DS747.42.C84 2001

The Physical Object

Pagination
xvi, 359 p., [8] p. of plates :
Number of pages
359

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Open Library
OL15512049M
Internet Archive
isbn_9780674005235
ISBN 10
0674005236
LCCN
2001024046
OCLC/WorldCat
46319691
Library Thing
3480014
Goodreads
777470

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