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T'ang China

The Rise of the East in World History

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  • © 2004

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  1. S. A. M. Adshead
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Table of contents (6 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xvii
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  2. Polemic: Before the Rise of the East

    • S. A. M. Adshead
    Pages 1-29

  3. Politics: The Genius of T’ang

    • S. A. M. Adshead
    Pages 30-67

  4. Economy: China takes Centre-Stage

    • S. A. M. Adshead
    Pages 68-100

  5. Society: A Multiple China

    • S. A. M. Adshead
    Pages 101-129

  6. Intellect: China’s Complex Pluralism

    • S. A. M. Adshead
    Pages 130-167

  7. Return to the West: Reflux and Prognosis

    • S. A. M. Adshead
    Pages 168-201

  8. Back Matter

    Pages 202-233
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This book presents a picture focused on the T'ang period, one of China's acknowledged golden ages. Within a looser web of globalization, the T'ang period and its dynamics offers a distant mirror of our own time. An argument in world history may thus cast light on issues in contemporary politics.

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'Any student interested in macro-history, as well as in the history of China in pre-modern times, will be well rewarded by reading it.' - Professor John S. Gregory, former Professor of History, La Trobe University, Melbourne, Australia

'T'ang China is historical argument at its best... The Adsheadian view of world history is wonderfully integrated and distinctive, and will stimulate debate for years to come.' - Brian Moloughney, Professor of History, University of Otago, New Zealand, and editor of the New Zealand Journal of Asian Studies

About the author

S.A.M. ADSHEAD is Professor Emeritus in History at the University of Canterbury in Christchurch, New Zealand. He was educated at Stowe School and Christ Church, Oxford, and studied Chinese History at Harvard University. He is the author of The Modernization of the Chinese Salt Administration, Province and Politics in Late Imperial China, Salt and Civilization, Central Asia in World History and The Philosophy of History in Nineteenth-Century England and Beyond.

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