China, the Long-lived Empire
Author | : Eliza Ruhamah Scidmore |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 498 |
Release | : 1900 |
Genre | : China |
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Author | : Eliza Ruhamah Scidmore |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 498 |
Release | : 1900 |
Genre | : China |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Eliza Ruhamah Scidmore |
Publisher | : Andesite Press |
Total Pages | : 496 |
Release | : 2015-08-11 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9781297663963 |
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Author | : Eliza Ruhamah 1856-1928 Scidmore |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 494 |
Release | : 2016-09-10 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781360786261 |
Author | : William T. Rowe |
Publisher | : Harvard University Press |
Total Pages | : 369 |
Release | : 2010-02-15 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 0674054555 |
In a brisk revisionist history, William Rowe challenges the standard narrative of Qing China as a decadent, inward-looking state that failed to keep pace with the modern West. This original, thought-provoking history of China's last empire is a must-read for understanding the challenges facing China today.
Author | : ELIZA RUHAMAH. SCIDMORE |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2018 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9780331833171 |
Author | : Eliza Ruhamah Scidmore |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 466 |
Release | : 1900 |
Genre | : |
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Author | : Mark Edward Lewis |
Publisher | : Harvard University Press |
Total Pages | : 367 |
Release | : 2009-06-30 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 067403306X |
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 emergence of an economically and culturally dominant south that was controlled from a northern capital set a pattern for the rest of Chinese imperial history. Poems celebrated the glories of the capital, meditated on individual loneliness in its midst, and described heroic young men and beautiful women who filled city streets and bars. Despite the romantic aura attached to the Tang, it was not a time of unending peace. In 756, General An Lushan led a revolt that shook the country to its core, weakening the government to such a degree that by the early tenth century, regional warlordism gripped many areas, heralding the decline of the Great Tang.
Author | : Er Scidmore |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 514 |
Release | : |
Genre | : |
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Author | : Raoul McLaughlin |
Publisher | : Pen and Sword |
Total Pages | : 249 |
Release | : 2016-11-11 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1473889812 |
A fascinating history of the intricate web of trade routes connecting ancient Rome to Eastern civilizations, including its powerful rival, the Han Empire. The Roman Empire and the Silk Routes investigates the trade routes between Rome and the powerful empires of inner Asia, including the Parthian Empire of ancient Persia, and the Kushan Empire which seized power in Bactria (Afghanistan), laying claim to the Indus Kingdoms. Further chapters examine the development of Palmyra as a leading caravan city on the edge of Roman Syria. Raoul McLaughlin also delves deeply into Rome’s trade ventures through the Tarim territories, which led its merchants to the Han Empire of ancient China. Having established a system of Central Asian trade routes known as the Silk Road, the Han carried eastern products as far as Persia and the frontiers of the Roman Empire. Though they were matched in scale, the Han surpassed its European rival in military technology. The first book to address these subjects in a single comprehensive study, The Roman Empire and the Silk Routes explores Rome’s impact on the ancient world economy and reveals what the Chinese and Romans knew about their rival Empires.
Author | : Yuhua Wang |
Publisher | : Princeton University Press |
Total Pages | : 352 |
Release | : 2022-10-11 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 0691237514 |
How social networks shaped the imperial Chinese state China was the world’s leading superpower for almost two millennia, falling behind only in the last two centuries and now rising to dominance again. What factors led to imperial China’s decline? The Rise and Fall of Imperial China offers a systematic look at the Chinese state from the seventh century through to the twentieth. Focusing on how short-lived emperors often ruled a strong state while long-lasting emperors governed a weak one, Yuhua Wang shows why lessons from China’s history can help us better understand state building. Wang argues that Chinese rulers faced a fundamental trade-off that he calls the sovereign’s dilemma: a coherent elite that could collectively strengthen the state could also overthrow the ruler. This dilemma emerged because strengthening state capacity and keeping rulers in power for longer required different social networks in which central elites were embedded. Wang examines how these social networks shaped the Chinese state, and vice versa, and he looks at how the ruler’s pursuit of power by fragmenting the elites became the final culprit for China’s fall. Drawing on more than a thousand years of Chinese history, The Rise and Fall of Imperial China highlights the role of elite social relations in influencing the trajectories of state development.