书名: T'ang China: The Rise of the East in World History
作者: Samuel Adrian M. Adshead (Author)
出版社: Palgrave Macmillan (September 23, 2004)
语言: English
ISBN-10: 1403934568
ISBN-13: 978-1403934567
Book Description
China's role in world history has been controversial, especially as seen through an economic lens. This book presents an alternative interpretation of that role, less exclusively economic, more broadly based, and focused on the T'ang period, one of China's acknowledged golden ages. It shows how a different China, Buddhist or Taoist rather than Confucian, aristocratic as much as meritocratic, achieved, through openness to the outside world and partnership with its elites, a multiple preeminence in politics, economics, society and the intellect, not unlike that enjoyed by the United States today. Within a looser web of globalization, the T'ang period and its dynamics offers a distant mirror of our own time, casting a new light on issues in contemporary politics.
About the Author
S.A.M. Adshead is Professor Emeritus in History at the University of Canterbury in Christchurch, New Zealand.
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作者: Samuel Adrian M. Adshead (Author)
出版社: Palgrave Macmillan (September 23, 2004)
语言: English
ISBN-10: 1403934568
ISBN-13: 978-1403934567
Book Description
China's role in world history has been controversial, especially as seen through an economic lens. This book presents an alternative interpretation of that role, less exclusively economic, more broadly based, and focused on the T'ang period, one of China's acknowledged golden ages. It shows how a different China, Buddhist or Taoist rather than Confucian, aristocratic as much as meritocratic, achieved, through openness to the outside world and partnership with its elites, a multiple preeminence in politics, economics, society and the intellect, not unlike that enjoyed by the United States today. Within a looser web of globalization, the T'ang period and its dynamics offers a distant mirror of our own time, casting a new light on issues in contemporary politics.
About the Author
S.A.M. Adshead is Professor Emeritus in History at the University of Canterbury in Christchurch, New Zealand.
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