02589cam a2200265 a 45000010008000000030008000080050017000160080041000330100017000740200031000910200028001220240016001500400069001660430012002350820020002471000030002672450087002972600074003843000035004584900030004935040066005235050277005895201428008666510029022947071721BD-DhUL20200216081823.0070118s2009    mauab    b    001 0 eng    a  2007002457  a9780674026056 (alk. paper)  a0674026055 (alk. paper)  a40016411716  aDLCcBD-DhULdBD-DhULdBAKERdYDXCPdC#PdBWXdCDXdUKMdOrLoB-B  aa-cc---00a931.04222bLEC1 aLewis, Mark Edwardd1954-10aChina between empires :bthe northern and southern dynasties /cMark Edward Lewis.  aCambridge, Mass. :bBelknap Press of Harvard University Press,c2009.  a340 p. :bill., maps ;c23 cm.1 aHistory of imperial China  aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [299]-324) and index.00g1.tThe Geography of North and South China -- g2.tThe Rise of the Great Families -- g3.tMilitary Dynasticism -- g4.tUrban Transformation -- g5.tRural Life -- g6.tChina and the Outer World -- g7.tRedefining Kinship -- g8.tDaoism and Buddhism -- g9.tWriting.1 a"After the collapse of the Han dynasty in the third century CE, China divided along a north-south line. Mark Lewis traces the changes that both underlay and resulted from this split in a period that saw the geographic redefinition of China, more engagement with the outside world, significant changes to family life, developments in the literary and social arenas, and the introduction of new religions." "The Yangzi River valley arose as the rice-producing center of the country. Literature moved beyond the court and capital to depict local culture, and newly emerging social spaces included the garden, temple, salon, and country villa. The growth of self-defined genteel families expanded the notion of the elite, moving it away from the traditional great Han families identified mostly by material wealth. Trailing the rebel movements that toppled the Han, the new faiths of Daoism and Buddhism altered every aspect of life, including the state, kinship structures, and the economy." "By the time China was reunited by the Sui dynasty in 589 CE, the elite had been drawn into the state order, and imperial power had assumed a more transcendent nature. The Chinese were incorporated into a new world system in which they exchanged goods and ideas with states that shared a common Buddhist religion. The centuries between the Han and the Tang thus had a profound and permanent impact on the Chinese world."--BOOK JACKET. 0aChinaxHistoryy220-589.