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The Destruction of the Medieval Chinese Aristocracy (Hardcover)
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The Destruction of the Medieval Chinese Aristocracy (Hardcover)
Series: Harvard-Yenching Institute Monograph Series
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Historians have long been perplexed by the complete disappearance
of the medieval Chinese aristocracy by the tenth century-the "great
clans" that had dominated China for centuries. In this book,
Nicolas Tackett resolves the enigma of their disappearance, using
new, digital methodologies to analyze a dazzling array of sources.
Tackett systematically mines thousands of funerary biographies
excavated in recent decades-most of them never before examined by
scholars-while taking full advantage of the explanatory power of
Geographic Information System (GIS) methods and social network
analysis. Tackett supplements these analyses with extensive
anecdotes culled from epitaphs, prose literature, and poetry,
bringing to life women and men who lived a millennium in the past.
The Destruction of the Medieval Chinese Aristocracy demonstrates
that the great Tang aristocratic families adapted to the social,
economic, and institutional transformations of the seventh and
eighth centuries far more successfully than previously believed.
Their political influence collapsed only after a large number were
killed during three decades of extreme violence following Huang
Chao's sack of the capital cities in 880 CE.
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