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China's Cosmopolitan Empire - The Tang Dynasty (Paperback)
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China's Cosmopolitan Empire - The Tang Dynasty (Paperback)
Series: History of Imperial China
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Loot Price R538
Discovery Miles 5 380
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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 geographical extent under Chinese rule,
painting and ceramic arts flourished, women played a major role
both as rulers and in the economy, and China produced its finest
lyric poets in Wang Wei, Li Bo, and Du Fu. The Chinese engaged in
extensive trade on sea and land. Merchants from Inner Asia settled
in the capital, while Chinese entrepreneurs set off for the wider
world, the beginning of a global diaspora. The emergence of an
economically and culturally dominant south that was controlled from
a northern capital set a pattern for the rest of Chinese imperial
history. Poems celebrated the glories of the capital, meditated on
individual loneliness in its midst, and described heroic young men
and beautiful women who filled city streets and bars. Despite the
romantic aura attached to the Tang, it was not a time of unending
peace. In 756, General An Lushan led a revolt that shook the
country to its core, weakening the government to such a degree that
by the early tenth century, regional warlordism gripped many areas,
heralding the decline of the Great Tang.
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