Linda Walton (Portland State University)

Middle Imperial China, 900-1350

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

In this highly readable and engaging survey of China's history from the tenth through the mid-fourteenth centuries, Linda Walton presents a framework for understanding both changes and continuities. While stressing China's Eurasian setting, she also addresses significant themes of world history, including gender, empire, the state, and religion.

Produktdetails

• New Approaches to Asian History
• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 434
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. August 2023
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 640g
• ISBN-13: 9781108430753
• ISBN-10: 1108430759
• Artikelnr.: 67374170

Autorenporträt

Linda Walton is Professor Emerita at Portland State University.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: Middle Imperial China in East Asian and world History
1. The turbulent tenth century: transforming the East Asian world
2. Song in a multipolar world
3. Schooling, state, and society in song and Jin
4. An economic revolution?
5. Cities and urban life
6. Religious transformations
7. Ways of knowing: learning and knowledge
8. The arts of culture
9. Gendered and generational lives: women, men, children and families
10. Mapping the built and natural environment
11. Sustaining life and healing bodies: food and medicine
12. The Mongol Yuan dynasty in China
13. Yuan China in the Mongol Eurasian Empire.