China Between Empires: The Northern and Southern Dynasties (History of Imperial China) (Hardback)
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Short Description for China Between Empires After the collapse of the Han dynasty in the third century CE, China divided along a north-south line. This title traces the changes that both underlay and resulted from this split in a period that saw the geographic redefinition of China, engagement with the outside world, significant changes to family life, and the introduction of religions.
Full description- Publisher: The Belknap Press
- Published: 23 February 2009
- Format: Hardback 352 pages
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- Categories: Asian History | Ancient History: To C 500 CE | Early History: C 500 To C 1450/1500 | Medieval History
- ISBN 13: 9780674026056 ISBN 10: 0674026055
- Sales rank: 275,722
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Full description for China Between Empires
After the collapse of the Han dynasty in the third century CE, China divided along a north-south line. Mark Lewis traces the changes that both underlay and resulted from this split in a period that saw the geographic redefinition of China, more engagement with the outside world, significant changes to family life, developments in the literary and social arenas, and the introduction of new religions.The Yangzi River valley arose as the rice-producing center of the country. Literature moved beyond the court and capital to depict local culture, and newly emerging social spaces included the garden, temple, salon, and country villa. The growth of self-defined genteel families expanded the notion of the elite, moving it away from the traditional great Han families identified mostly by material wealth. Trailing the rebel movements that toppled the Han, the new faiths of Daoism and Buddhism altered every aspect of life, including the state, kinship structures, and the economy.By the time China was reunited by the Sui dynasty in 589 CE, the elite had been drawn into the state order, and imperial power had assumed a more transcendent nature. The Chinese were incorporated into a new world system in which they exchanged goods and ideas with states that shared a common Buddhist religion. The centuries between the Han and the Tang thus had a profound and permanent impact on the Chinese world.
