02642cam a2200289 a 4500 7071721 BD-DhUL 20200216081823.0 070118s2009 mauab b 001 0 eng 2007002457 9780674026056 (alk. paper) 0674026055 (alk. paper) 40016411716 DLC BD-DhUL BD-DhUL BAKER YDXCP C#P BWX CDX UKM OrLoB-B a-cc--- 931.04 22 LEC Lewis, Mark Edward 1954- China between empires : the northern and southern dynasties / Mark Edward Lewis. Cambridge, Mass. : Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2009. 340 p. : ill., maps ; 23 cm. History of imperial China Includes bibliographical references (p. [299]-324) and index. 1. The Geography of North and South China -- 2. The Rise of the Great Families -- 3. Military Dynasticism -- 4. Urban Transformation -- 5. Rural Life -- 6. China and the Outer World -- 7. Redefining Kinship -- 8. Daoism and Buddhism -- 9. Writing. "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. China History 220-589. ddc BK 85567 85567 0 0 ddc 0 931_040000000000000_LEC 0 NFIC 142626 DUL DUL GEN 2016-07-21 Purchased 931.04 LEC 475411 2016-07-21 1 2016-07-21 BK