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The destruction of the medieval Chinese aristocracy /
"Tackett resolves the enigma of the complete disappearance by the tenth century of the medieval Chinese aristocracy, analyzing a dazzling array of sources to demonstrate that the great Tang aristocratic families were far more successful than previously believed in adapting to the many transform...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cambridge, Massachusetts :
Harvard University Asia Center,
2014.
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| Colección: | Harvard-Yenching Institute monograph series ;
93. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Map of Tang China
- Conventions
- Introduction
- The transformation of medieval elites
- Tomb epitaphs as a historical source
- Chapter One. The bureaucratic aristocracy of medieval China
- Chapter Two. The geography of power
- Chapter Three. Capital elite marriage networks
- Chapter Four. The late Tang provinces
- Chapter Five. Huang Chao and the destruction of the medieval aristocracy
- Appendix A: Guide to the accompanying database
- Appendix B: Estimating the total size of the late Tang capital elite
- Appendix C: Sources of ninth-century excavated epitaphs.