This book challenges the long-established structure of Chinese
history around dynasties, adopting a more "organic" approach which
emphasises cultural and economic trends that transcend arbitrary
dynastic boundaries. It argues that with the collapse of the Tang
court and northern control over the holistic empire in the last
decades of the ninth century, the now-autonomous kingdoms that
filled the political vacuum in the south responded with a burst of
innovative energy that helped set the stage for the economic and
cultural transformations of the following Song dynasty. Moreover,
it argues that these transformations and this economic and cultural
innovation deeply affected the subsequent model of holistic empire
which continues right up to the present and that therefore the
interregnum century of division left a critically important legacy.
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