China's Cosmopolitan Empire The Tang Dynasty

Name: China's Cosmopolitan Empire The Tang Dynasty
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ISBN: 9780674064010

ISBN-10: 0674064011

ISBN-13: 9780674064010

Edition: 2009

Authors: Mark Edward Lewis, Timothy Brook

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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…

Book details

List price: $26.00
Copyright year: 2009
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Publication date: 4/9/2012
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 368
Size: 6.14" wide x 9.25" long x 1.01" tall
Weight: 0.902
Language: English

Mark Edward Lewis is Kwoh-Ting Li Professor in Chinese Culture at Stanford University.

Timothy Brook is Professor of History and Republic of China Chair at the University of British Columbia.