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T'ang China: The Rise of the East in World History - Softcover

Adshead, S.

 
9781403934574: T'ang China: The Rise of the East in World History

Synopsis

This new text offers students and scholars a detailed portrait of China in its "Golden Age", the T'ang period (618-970 AD). Samuel Adrian Adshead shows us how T'ang China, through openness to the outside world and partnership with its elites, achie

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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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