Early Medieval China: A Sourcebook - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0231159870 ISBN 13: 9780231159876

Publisher: Columbia University Press, 2014

Synopsis

This innovative sourcebook builds a dynamic understanding of China's early medieval period (220–589) through an original selection and arrangement of literary, historical, religious, and critical texts. A tumultuous and formative era, these centuries saw the longest stretch of political fragmentation in China's imperial history, resulting in new ethnic configurations, the rise of powerful clans, and a pervasive divide between north and south.

Deploying thematic categories, the editors sketch the period in a novel way for students and, by featuring many texts translated into English for the first time, recast the era for specialists. Thematic topics include regional definitions and tensions, governing mechanisms and social reality, ideas of self and other, relations with the unseen world, everyday life, and cultural concepts. Within each section, the editors and translators introduce the selected texts and provide critical commentary on their historical significance, along with suggestions for further reading and research.

About this title

Book Description:

Capturing the unusual cultural character of a formative period and its intellectual ferment across multiple disciplines.

Book Description:

Choice Outstanding Academic Title, 2014

About this edition

• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Publication date: 2014
• ISBN 10: 0231159870
• ISBN 13: 9780231159876
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 720
• Editor: Swartz Wendy, Campany Robert Ford, Lu Yang, Choo Jessey