China's cosmopolitan empire the Tang dynasty /
The Tang dynasty is often called China's "golden age," a period of commercial, religious, and cultural connections from Korea and Japan to the Persian Gulf, and a time of unsurpassed literary creativity. Mark Lewis captures a dynamic era in which the empire reached its greatest geogra...
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Cambridge, Mass. :
Belknap Press of Harvard University Press,
2009
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| Series: | History of Imperial China
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Table of Contents:
- The geography of the Tang empire
- The restored empire
- Warlords and monopolists in late Tang China
- Tang urban life
- Rural society
- Tang China and the outer world
- Kinship
- Religion
- Tang writing
- Conclusion: the tenth-century transition