T'Ang China: The Rise of the East in World History - Hardcover
by S. Adshead
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Availability:In StockContributor:S. AdsheadTheme:Chronological Period/Medieval (500-1453) Studies, Cultural Region/ChinesePublish date:7/29/2004Pages:233
Languages:EnglishPublisher:Palgrave MacMillanISBN-13:9781403934567ISBN-10:1403934568UPC:9781403934567Book Category:HistoryBook Subcategory:Asia, Europe, WorldBook Topic:China, MedievalSize:8.80 x 5.60 x 0.72 inchesWeight:0.422Product ID:SCBJ9YWD23
This book presents a picture focused on the T'ang period, one of China's acknowledged golden ages. Within a looser web of globalization, the T'ang period and its dynamics offers a distant mirror of our own time. An argument in world history may thus cast light on issues in contemporary politics.
Languages:EnglishPublisher:Palgrave MacMillanISBN-13:9781403934567ISBN-10:1403934568UPC:9781403934567Book Category:HistoryBook Subcategory:Asia, Europe, WorldBook Topic:China, MedievalSize:8.80 x 5.60 x 0.72 inchesWeight:0.422Product ID:SCBJ9YWD23
S.A.M. ADSHEAD is Professor Emeritus in History at the University of Canterbury in Christchurch, New Zealand. He was educated at Stowe School and Christ Church, Oxford, and studied Chinese History at Harvard University. He is the author of The Modernization of the Chinese Salt Administration, Province and Politics in Late Imperial China, Salt and Civilization, Central Asia in World History and The Philosophy of History in Nineteenth-Century England and Beyond.
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
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