T'ang China: The Rise of the East in World History (Paperback)
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all these other countries) Usually dispatched within 48 hours | |Short Description for T'ang China China's role in world history has been controversial, especially as seen through an economic lens. 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, achie...
Full description- Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
- Published: 29 October 2004
- Format: Paperback 252 pages
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- Categories: Asian History | Early History: C 500 To C 1450/1500 | Medieval History
- ISBN 13: 9781403934574 ISBN 10: 1403934576
- Sales rank: 1,146,306
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Full description for T'ang China
China's role in world history has been controversial, especially as seen through an economic lens. 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 preeminence 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, casting a new light on issues in contemporary politics.
