The Cambridge History of China

doi:10.1017/CHOL9780521214469

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.

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Frontmatter
pp i-xx

1 - Introduction
pp 1-47

2 - The Sui dynasty (581–617)
pp 48-149

3 - The founding of the T'ang dynasty: Kao-tsu (reign 618–26)
pp 150-187

4 - T'ai-tsung (reign 626–49) the consolidator
pp 188-241

5 - Kao-tsung (reign 649–83) and the empress Wu: the inheritor and the usurper
pp 242-289

6 - The reigns of the empress Wu, Chung-tsung and Jui-tsung (684–712)
pp 290-332

7 - Hsüan-tsung (reign 712–56)
pp 333-463

8 - Court and province in mid- and late T'ang
pp 464-560

9 - Court politics in late T'ang times
pp 561-681

10 - The end of the T'ang
pp 682-789

Glossary Index
pp 790-850

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