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Mark Edward Lewis China’s Cosmopolitan Empire (Paperback). Title: China’s Cosmopolitan Empire. Author: Mark Edward Lewis. The Chinese engaged in extensive trade on sea and land. Series: History of Imperial China. Format: Paperback. Item Length: 156mm. Item Height: 235mm. Further DetailsTitle: China’s Cosmopolitan Empire Condition: New Author: Mark Edward Lewis Publisher: The Belknap Press Format: Paperback Subtitle: The Tang Dynasty ISBN-10: 0674064011 Contributor: Timothy Brook (Edited by) EAN: 9780674064010 ISBN: 9780674064010 Release Date: 04/09/2012 Item Height: 235mm Item Length: 156mm Language: English Country/Region of Manufacture: US Genre: History Description: 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. Series: History of Imperial China Release Year: 2012 Missing Information?Please contact us if any details are missing and where possible we will add the information to our listing.
