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T'ang China - The Rise of the East in World History (Hardcover, New)
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T'ang China - The Rise of the East in World History (Hardcover, New)
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China's role in world history is again controversial thanks to
Andre Gunder Frank's Re Orient: Global Economy in the Asian Age. By
contrast, this book presents an alternative interpretation of that
role, less exclusively economic, more broadly based, and focused on
the T'ang period, one of China's acknowledged golden ages. It shows
how a different China, Buddhist or Taoist rather than Confucian,
aristocratic as much as meritocratic, achieved, through openness to
the outside world and partnership with its elites, a multiple pre
eminence in politics, economics, society and the intellect, not
unlike that enjoyed by the United States today. Within a looser web
of globalization, the T'ang period and its dynamics offers a
distant mirror of our own time. An argument in world history may
thus cast light on issues in contemporary politics. MARKET 1:
Undergraduates and postgraduates studying courses in Chinese
History; World History; Macroeconomic History.
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