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Sui and T'ang China, 589–906, Part I

Series The Cambridge History of China, Volume 3

Edited by Denis Twitchett

Publication Date 1979

Hardback ISBN-13 9780521214469

Hardback ISBN-10 0521214467

Digital Object Identifier (DOI) 10.1017/CHOL9780521214469

Overview

The Cambridge History of China is one of the most far-reaching works of international scholarship ever undertaken, exploring the main developments in political, social, economic and intellectual life from the Ch'in empire to the present day. The contributors are specialists from the international community of sinological scholars. Many of the accounts break new ground; all are based on fresh research. The works are written not only with students and scholars but also with the general reader in mind. No knowledge of Chinese is assumed, though for readers of Chinese, proper and other names are identified with their characters in the index. Numerous maps and tables illustrate the text. Volume 3, covers the second great period of unified imperial power, 589-906, when China established herself as the centre of a wider cultural sphere, embracing Japan, Korea and Vietnam. It was an era in which there was a great deal of rapid social and economic change, and in which literature and the arts reached new heights of attainment.

For more details of the print book, and how to buy it online, please see Sui and T'ang China, 589–906, Part I in the Cambridge University Press online catalogue.

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The Cambridge History of China Vol. 3: Sui and T'ang China, 589–906, Part I

Frontmatter

Introduction by Denis Twitchett

The Sui dynasty (581–617) by Arthur F. Wright

The founding of the T'ang dynasty: Kao-tsu (reign 618–26) by Howard J. Wechsler

T'ai-tsung (reign 626–49) the consolidator by Howard J. Wechsler

Kao-tsung (reign 649–83) and the empress Wu: the inheritor and the usurper by Denis Twitchett and Howard J. Wechsler

The reigns of the empress Wu, Chung-tsung and Jui-tsung (684–712) by Richard W. L. Guisso

Hsüan-tsung (reign 712–56) by Denis Twitchett

Court and province in mid- and late T'ang by C. A. Peterson

Court politics in late T'ang times by Michael T. Dalby

The end of the T'ang by Robert M. Somers

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