Middle Imperial China, 900–1350
A New History
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Part of New Approaches to Asian History
- Author: Linda Walton, Portland State University
- Date Published: August 2023
- availability: Available
- format: Hardback
- isbn: 9781108420686
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In this highly readable and engaging work, Linda Walton presents a dynamic survey of China's history from the tenth through the mid-fourteenth centuries from the founding of the Song dynasty through the Mongol conquest when Song China became part of the Mongol Empire and Marco Polo made his famous journey to the court of the Great Khan. Adopting a thematic approach, she highlights the political, social, economic, intellectual, and cultural changes and continuities of the period often conceptualized as 'Middle Imperial China'. Particular emphasis is given to themes that inform scholarship on world history: religion, the state, the dynamics of empire, the transmission of knowledge, the formation of political elites, gender, and the family. Consistent coverage of peoples beyond the borders – Khitan, Tangut, Jurchen, and Mongol, among others – provides a broader East Asian context and introduces a more nuanced, integrated representation of China's past.
Read more- Integrates Middle Period Chinese history into East Asian and world history
- Designed for use in courses on Chinese history, world history and Asian civilisations
- Provides a dynamic overview of the state of a fast-paced field of historical research
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'Middle Imperial China, 900-1350 is an erudite and accessible addition to the historical literature on Middle Period China. Professor Walton presents us with a multipolar world in which the Song dynasty was challenged by its powerful neighbors to the north and west and finally succumbed to the Mongols, whose Yuan dynasty also receives generous treatment at the end. The book's topical chapters on developments in the economy, society, cities, learning, thought, religion, the arts, women, and the built environment represent an impressive synthesis of the scholarship on these varied topics. As an excellent introduction into the history of this important period, this will be welcomed by specialists and non-specialists alike.' John W. Chaffee, Binghamton University
See more reviews'The perfect book to anchor a semester-long course, whether undergraduate or graduate, on the Song dynasty, the world's most advanced society between 1000 and 1250. Impressive coverage of a wide range of topics with plentiful footnotes to both the enduring classics and the latest work in English-language scholarship on the Song.' Valerie Hansen, Yale University
'Pedagogically well-conceived for classroom use, this authoritative text surveys and synthesizes the past century of scholarship on the politics, economies, religions, and cultures of all the Sinitic and non-Sinitic societies of continental East Asia that predated the emergence of modern China – an essential book for the serious student of China's history.' Charles Hartman, The University of Albany
'[An] impressive synthesis of previous scholarship that offers a well-balanced survey of China's mid-imperial period. … Undergraduate and graduate students seriously interested in this important period, as well as educators at all levels, will find this book invaluable.' Sukhee Lee, Journal of Chinese History
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- Date Published: August 2023
- format: Hardback
- isbn: 9781108420686
- length: 484 pages
- dimensions: 235 x 160 x 25 mm
- weight: 0.768kg
- availability: Available
Table of Contents
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.
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