Ebook: China’s Cosmopolitan Empire: The Tang Dynasty
Author: Mark Edward Lewis Timothy Brook
- Genre: History
- Series: History of Imperial China
- Year: 2012
- Publisher: Harvard University Press
- Edition: 1
- Language: English
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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.
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