In China's Cosmopolitan Empire: The Tang Dynasty, Mark Edward Lewis has done a superb job of synthesizing the scholarship on the Tang Dynasty (618-907) and rendering it into a readable account. "In China's Cosmopolitan Empire: The Tang Dynasty, Mark Edward Lewis has done a superb job of synthesizing the scholarship on the Tang Dynasty (618-907) and rendering it into a readable account. In China's Cosmopolitan Empire: The Tang Dynasty, Lewis has produced a substantive and admirable general history of two dynasties in China's middle period: the short-lived Sui (589-617) and the longer lasting Tang (618-906) that continued the institutional and economic transformation launched by the Sui rulers. The Tang dynasty (/ t ɑː ŋ /; Chinese: 唐朝) or the Tang Empire was an imperial dynasty of China that ruled from 618 to 907, with an interregnum between 690 and 705. It was preceded by the Sui dynasty and followed by the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms period in Chinese history. The Tang dynasty is often called China’s “golden age,” a period of commercial, religious, and cultural connections from Korea and Japan to the Persian Gulf, and a time of unsurpassed literary creativity. China's Cosmopolitan Empire: The Tang Dynasty is the third of the six-volume series of the history of imperial China published by Belknap Press. China's Cosmopolitan Empire is written so succinctly and clearly that it provides, to my knowledge, the best summary of the Tang period yet available in English. The empire reached its greatest size prior to the Manchu Qing dynasty… The Tang dynasty is often called China’s “golden age,” a period of commercial, religious, and cultural connections from Korea and Japan to the Persian Gulf, and a time of unsurpassed literary creativity. China’s Cosmopolitan Empire: The Tang Dynasty Mark Edward Lewis The Tang dynasty is often called China’s “golden age,” a period of commercial, religious, and cultural connections from Korea and Japan to the Persian Gulf, and a time of unsurpassed literary creativity. Stanford Libraries' official online search tool for books, media, journals, databases, government documents and more. Despite these efforts, currency shortages continued to bedevil the state throughout the dynasty, and in many cases cloth rather than coins became the medium of exchange and tax payment.7 Another problem confronting the new dynasty was the power of the Turkish empire to China’s north and west. China’s Cosmopolitan Empire: The Tang Dynasty (History of Imperial China Book 3) eBook: Lewis, Mark Edward, Brook, Timothy: Amazon.ca: Kindle Store China's Cosmopolitan Empire: The Tang Dynasty (History of Imperial China) Mark Edward Lewis. -- Jonathan Mirsky Literary Review 20101101 In China's Cosmopolitan Empire: The Tang Dynasty, Mark Edward Lewis has done a superb job of synthesizing the scholarship on the Tang Dynasty (618-907) and rendering it into a readable account.
"In China's Cosmopolitan Empire: The Tang Dynasty, Mark Edward Lewis has done a superb job of synthesizing the scholarship on the Tang Dynasty (618-907) and rendering it into a readable account. Stanford Libraries' official online search tool for books, media, journals, databases, government documents and more. Introduction from “China’s Cosmopolitan Empire: Tang Dynasty” by Mark Edward Lewis. MOST Chinese regard the Tang dynasty (618—907) as the highpoint of imperial China, both politically and culturally. China’s Cosmopolitan Empire: The Tang Dynasty (History of Imperial China Book 3) eBook: Lewis, Mark Edward, Brook, Timothy: Amazon.ca: Kindle Store