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" China's cosmopolitan empire : "
Mark Edward Lewis.
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BL
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1006411
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b760781
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Lewis, Mark Edward,1954-
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China's cosmopolitan empire : : the Tang dynasty /\ Mark Edward Lewis.
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Cambridge, Massachusetts :: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press,, 2009.
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History of imperial China
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1 online resource (356 pages) :: illustrations, maps.
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067403306X
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: 0674054199
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: 9780674033061
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: 9780674054196
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 317-340) and index.
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| Contents
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The geography of empire -- From foundation to rebellion -- Warlords and monopolists -- Urban life -- Rural society -- The outer world -- Kinship -- Religion -- Writing -- Conclusion.
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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."--Jacket.
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Electronic books.
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Asia / China.
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Civilization.
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East Asia.
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Electronic books.
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History Archaeology.
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HISTORY / Asia / China
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HISTORY.
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HISTORY.
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Regions Countries - Asia the Middle East.
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Tang Dynasty (China)
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Tangdynastie.
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China, Civilization.
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China, History, Tang dynasty, 618-907.
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China.
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China.
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| Dewey Classification
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951/.017
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DS749.3.L47 2009eb
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| Parallel Title
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Tang dynasty
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