China during the Tang-Song Interregnum, 878-978: New Approaches to the Southern Kingdoms

by Hugh R. Clark

Book Overview

This book challenges the long-established structure of Chinese history around dynasties, adopting a more organic approach which emphasises cultural and economic trends that transcend arbitrary dynastic boundaries. It argues that with the collapse of the Tang court and northern control over the holistic empire in the last decades of the ninth century, the now-autonomous kingdoms that filled the political vacuum in the south responded with a burst...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1032053658
• ISBN13: 9781032053653
• Release Date: January 2023
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 122 Pages
• Weight: 0.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 6.1" x 9.2"