China's Cosmopolitan Empire: The Tang Dynasty

by Mark Edward Lewis

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0674064011
• ISBN13: 9780674064010
• Release Date: April 2012
• Publisher: Belknap Press
• Length: 368 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.1" x 9.2"