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File Size: 3531 KB
Print Length: 368 pages
Publisher: Harvard University Press; Reprint edition (April 2, 2012)
Publication Date: April 2, 2012
Sold by: Amazon Digital Services LLC
Language: English
ASIN: B003WE9C5A
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I would actually like to give this 4.5 stars but I dont have that option!I like this series of books--there is one on early Chinese empires and on the Ching Dynasty as well. They are quite comprehensive, covering the broad contours of the empires, in this case the Tang Empire. In addition, though these are scholarly works, they are written as much as possible with the lay reader in mind. I am an academic, so I appreciate all the paraphernalia that goes along with these books, particularly the notes and bibliographies. But, I am not a China expert, so I appreciate the presentation in a fairly clear and readable format.In this volume, I do have one small criticism. I love the chapters devoted to religion, ideas and culture. But, they do, in this particular volume on the Tang, require a certain amount of pre-existing knowledge on the part of the reader. This is especially the case in the chapters on religion dealing with Buddhism and Taoism. The author tends to introduce concepts and personalities and presumes that the reader has some background knowledge. If it gets someone to go to the notes and bibliography and read more for themselves, that is great. But it may turn some people off. He writes about culture, poetry and ideas in a similar vein.I also may have a small quibble with the author's use of evidence from the Song dynasty, the Tang successor, which he sometimes uses to illustrate events and ideas from the Tang--arguing that the origins of the Song practice is rooted in the Tang. This is a very very small criticism, however.All in all, this is a very nice, comprehensive introduction to Tang dynasty China, written for a general audience by an expert.
The emergence of the Tang Dynasty in 618 followed the Yellow River in northern China from present-day Xian across Shaanxi's plateau to the east, and westward through Gansu's mountain corridor through the deserts of Xinjiang. It was a tremendous expansion that rivaled and surpassed the Han Dynasty. At its greatest extent, it reached parts of Vietnam and influenced Korea and Japan's development.The rise was abruptly curtailed in 756 by the An Lushan rebellion in the west, which led to civil unrest and border wars until the Tang's collapse in 907. During the later period, China's center of gravity would shift permanently south to the Yangtze river valley. In later phases of the empire frequent fighting with Tibetans, Uighurs and Arabs reversed Tang pre-eminence among bordering kingdoms.This volume of Harvard's recent six-part history of Imperial China is authored by Mark Edward Lewis, who also wrote the two earlier volumes on the Qin-Han and Southern-Northern dynasties. Lewis is a professor of history at Stanford University in California. The previous high standard of writing in the series is maintained here. His first book on the Han won a prize from the Belles-Lettres Academy of France.As with the other volumes, this is a hybrid of chronological and thematic history. After the basic narrative of the dynastic foundation, rebellion and dissolution is told, chapters on cities, countryside, family, religion, and literature follow. There is an extended look at Tang relations with the outer world. Commerce and religion on silk road routes brought conflict with Turks to the west and nomads in the north.Although written in a scholarly manner, this book may be enjoyable for a general reader. It contains enough cultural information beyond dates, places, and events to maintain interest. Compressing three centuries of civilization into three hundred pages becomes too abbreviated. I wish there were more histories of the Tang dynasty beyond the basic textbooks​. This is the best I've found, and it's very good.
Not sure why I did not particularly jive with this text. I had been hoping for much more, I guess, and the way Lewis writes is monotonous. I am a big fan of Chinese History, especially the Tang Dynasty, so I was hoping for more detailed and relevant information. Yet, I prefer the crystal clear explanations and data presented in Tanner's Vol. 1 on Chinese History or even the playful (though arguably dated) writing and explanations of Fairbanks in his China: A New History. That said, I don't think Lewis presented that much more information than Tanner.
This book is comprehensive, providing English language material that is difficult or impossible to find anywhere else. However, the Kindle (digital) edition is a sham. No illustrations are included; instead, readers are referred to the print edition. Great, so we should have to buy the print edition as well? Kind of defeats the purpose of buying a digital edition doesn't it?The publishers did not take care when producing the digital edition. It is filled with awkwardly hyphenated words that don't go away regardless of which orientation you use.Note that all these comments are for the iPad Kindle version; I don't know whether the normal Kindle edition is complete. I'm very disappointed with the digital version.
This book is great at looking cultural and scructural changes and their causes and effects. I wish there was more in the way of more traditional military or political history, like better descriptions of the founding or fall of the dynasty, and also better descriptions of events or works he commonly talks about. For example, the author uses the story of Ms. Ren, the romantic tale of a fox demon to describe many different aspects of tang writing and culture, but doesn't give a complete summary of the story, and only gives a partial one long after he begins using it as an example.
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