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Imperial China, 900-1800 by Frederick W. Mote (2000, Hardcover)

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PublisherHarvard University Press

ISBN-100674445155

ISBN-139780674445154

eBay Product ID (ePID)312748

Product Key Features

Book TitleImperial China, 900-1800

Number of Pages1136 Pages

LanguageEnglish

TopicAsia / China

Publication Year2000

IllustratorYes

GenreHistory

AuthorFrederick W. Mote

FormatHardcover

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Item Height0.9 in

Item Weight62.8 Oz

Item Length10.3 in

Item Width6.6 in

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Intended AudienceTrade

LCCN99-031840

Dewey Edition21

ReviewsA major contribution to our present literature on the general historiography of late Imperial China. Not only is it eminently accessible to a wide nonspecialized intellectual public, it also provides a major corrective within the field to some of the tendencies that have dominated the writing of Chinese history. Mote has highly cogent things to say about the nature of what has been called the 'gentry' in China and highly relevant questions to raise about the notion of a demographic explosion in eighteenth-century China, and he examines many of the prevailing abstract conceptions that dominate the field. Yet he vividly demonstrates how limited our effort has been to explore in depth the vast documentary materials available to us, which are supposed to provide the 'empirical data' for our models, paradigms, and structural theories. Mote's major contribution is his detailed account of the growing complexity of relations between the Chinese state and the surrounding East Asian world during the period 900-1800., This massive tome crowns the long, distinguished career of Frederick Mote, an influential scholar of Late Imperial China in the United States... He does a wonderful job of reconstructing the history of such historically neglected regimes as Khitan-Liao, Jurchen-Jin, and Tangut-Western Xia, from the perspective of the Other. What I find most praiseworthy is the lucid, elegant expository style of writing...The book is likely to leave a profound and lasting impact on the reader in areas it focuses on, which will in turn help him or her better understand a given period of Late Imperial China from a long-term perspective., A personal meditation on the later imperial history of China by an author who has studied and taught the subject all his life and whose knowledge of it is truly formidable. It is written in a readable, accessible style that attracts the reader's sustained attention.

Dewey Decimal951/.02

Table Of ContentPreface Acknowledgments PART ONE: CONQUEST DYNASTIES AND THE NORTHERN SONG, 900-1127 The Five Dynasties Later Imperial China's Place in History The Course of Five Dynasties History The Eastward Shift of the Political Center Simultaneous Developments in the Ten States China and Inner Asia in Geographic and Historical Perspective Abaoji The Khitans and Their Neighbors Ethnic Diversity and Language Community The Lessons of History The New Leader Emerges The Significance of Khitan Acculturation Abaoji Receives Yao Kun, Envoy of the Later Tang Dynasty Building the Liao Empire Succession Issues after Abaoji The Meaning of the Early Liao Succession Crises The Khitan Inner Asian Tribal Empire Liao-Korean Relations Expansion into North China Liao-Song Relations Liao Civilization Multicultural Adaptations Khitan Society Patterns of Acculturation Buddhism in Khitan Life Interpretations of Liao Success Creating the Song Dynasty The Vigor of the Later Zhou and the Founding of the Song On Being the Emperor in Tenth-Century China Governing China The Military Problem The World of Ideas in Northern Song China The Man of the Age: Ouyang Xiu The Course of a Song Dynasty Official Career The Civil Service Examination System The Social Impact of the Song Examination System Political Reform and Political Thought Neo-Confucian Political Thought Dimensions of Northern Song Life High Culture The Example of Su Shi The New Elite and Song High Culture Religion in Song Life Song Society Origins of the Xi Xia State The Tangut People: Names and Ethnic Identities Early History of the Tangut Tribal People The Tanguts Come into the Song Orbit Yuan-hao Proclaims the Xi Xia Dynasty The Xi Xia as an Imperial Dynasty PART TWO: CONQUEST DYNASTIES AND THE SOUTHERN SONG, 1127-1279 The "Wild Jurchens" Erupt into History Aguda's Challenge The End of the Liao Dynasty The Northern Song Falls to the Jurchens Who Were These Jurchens? Explaining the Jurchens' Success The Jurchen State and Its Cultural Policy The Conquerors Turn to Governing The Period of Dual Institutions, 1115-1135 The Era of Centralization, 1135-1161 The Period of Nativist Reaction, 1161-1208 The End of the Jin Dynasty, 1208-1234 The Later Xi Xia State Xi Xia in the Era of the Jin Dynasty, 1115-1227 The Crisis of the "Partition of the State" The Destruction of the Xi Xia State The Tangut Achievement Xia Buddhism Trends of Change under Jin Alien Rule Divisions: North and South, Chinese and Non-Chinese Jurchen Dominance The Impact of the Civil Service Examinations High Culture during the Jin Dynasty Economic Life under the Jin The Southern Song and Chinese Survival A Fleeing PrinceCA New Emperor War versus Peace Patterns of High Politics after the Treaty of 1141 Chinese Civilization and the Song Achievement New Social Factors Elite Lives and Song High Culture Confucian Th

SynopsisThis is a history of China for the 900-year time span of the late imperial period. A senior scholar of this epoch, F. W. Mote highlights the personal characteristics of the rulers and dynasties and probes the cultural theme of Chinese adaptations to recurrent alien rule. No other work provides a similar synthesis: generational events, personalities, and the spirit of the age combine to yield a comprehensive history of the civilization, not isolated but shaped by its relation to outsiders. This vast panorama of the civilization of the largest society in human history reveals much about Chinese high and low culture, and the influential role of Confucian philosophical and social ideals. Throughout the Liao Empire, the world of the Song, the Mongol rule, and the early Qing through the Kangxi and Qianlong reigns, culture, ideas, and personalities are richly woven into the fabric of the political order and institutions. This is a monumental work that will stand among the classic accounts of the nature and vibrancy of Chinese civilization before the modern period.

LC Classification NumberDS750.64.M67 1999