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      • Volume 2: The Six Dynasties, 220–589
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    • Publisher:
      Cambridge University Press
      Publication date:
      28 October 2019
      07 November 2019
      ISBN:
      9781139107334
      9781107020771
      DOI:
      https://doi.org/10.1017/9781139107334
      Dimensions:
      (228 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      1.44kg, 960 Pages
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      • Subjects:
      East Asian History, Area Studies, Regional and World History: General Interest, Asian Studies, History
      Series:
      The Cambridge History of China
      Collection:
      Cambridge Histories - Asian History
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    Subjects:
    East Asian History, Area Studies, Regional and World History: General Interest, Asian Studies, History
    Series:
    The Cambridge History of China
    Collection:
    Cambridge Histories - Asian History
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    The Six Dynasties Period (220–589 CE) is one of the most complex in Chinese history. Written by leading scholars from across the globe, the essays in this volume cover nearly every aspect of the period, including politics, foreign relations, warfare, agriculture, gender, art, philosophy, material culture, local society, and music. While acknowledging the era's political chaos, these essays indicate that this was a transformative period when Chinese culture was significantly changed and enriched by foreign peoples and ideas. It was also a time when history and literature became recognized as independent subjects and religion was transformed by the domestication of Buddhism and the formation of organized Daoism. Many of the trends that shaped the rest of imperial China's history have their origins in this era, such as the commercial vibrancy of southern China, the separation of history and literature from classical studies, and the growing importance of women in politics and religion.

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    ‘In sum, this volume is not just an historical account of the Six Dynasties, but also a veritable encyclopedia of Early Medieval China, come to fruition through a long-standing pursuit to better understand this immensely formative period of Chinese history-a period, which has been long neglected or marginalized by scholars subscribing to the teleological construct of China.'

    Helwig Schmidt-Glintzer Source: Monumenta Serica

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