Commercial Development and Urban Change in Sung China (960-1279)
Title | Commercial Development and Urban Change in Sung China (960-1279) PDF eBook |
Author | Laurence J. C. Ma |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 226 |
Release | 1971 |
Genre | China |
ISBN |
Commercial Development and Urban Change in Sung China (960-1279)
Title | Commercial Development and Urban Change in Sung China (960-1279) PDF eBook |
Author | Donald Richard Deskins |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 0 |
Release | 1971 |
Genre | African Americans |
ISBN |
Commercial Development and Urban Change in Sung China (960-1279)
Title | Commercial Development and Urban Change in Sung China (960-1279) PDF eBook |
Author | Laurence J. C. Ma |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 220 |
Release | 1971 |
Genre | China |
ISBN |
Commercial Development and Urban Change in Sung China
Title | Commercial Development and Urban Change in Sung China PDF eBook |
Author | Laurence Jun-chao Ma |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 196 |
Release | 1977 |
Genre | China |
ISBN |
The Cambridge History of China: Volume 5, Sung China, 960–1279 AD, Part 2
Title | The Cambridge History of China: Volume 5, Sung China, 960–1279 AD, Part 2 PDF eBook |
Author | John W. Chaffee |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | 1127 |
Release | 2015-03-05 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1316239519 |
This is the second of two volumes on the Sung Dynasty, which together provide a comprehensive history of China from the fall of the T'ang Dynasty in 907 to the Mongol conquest of the Southern Sung in 1279. With contributions from leading historians in the field, Volume 5, Part Two paints a complex portrait of a dynasty beset by problems and contradictions, but one which, despite its military and geopolitical weakness, was nevertheless economically powerful, culturally brilliant, socially fluid and the most populous of any empire in global history to that point. In this much anticipated addition to the series, the authors survey key themes across ten chapters, including government, economy, society, religion, and thought to provide an authoritative and topical treatment of a profound and significant period in Chinese history.
China
Title | China PDF eBook |
Author | John Keay |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 634 |
Release | 2011-12-06 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0465025188 |
An authoritative history of five millennia of Chinese history
Out of the Margins
Title | Out of the Margins PDF eBook |
Author | Liangyan Ge |
Publisher | University of Hawaii Press |
Total Pages | 312 |
Release | 2001-09-30 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 9780824823702 |
The novel Water Margin (Shuihu zhuan), China's earliest full-length narrative in vernacular prose, first appeared in print in the sixteenth century. The tale of one hundred and eight bandit heroes evolved from a long oral tradition; in its novelized form, it played a pivotal role in the rise of Chinese vernacular fiction, which flourished during the late Ming (1368-1644) and Qing (1644-1911) periods. Liangyan Ge's multidimensional study considers the evolution of Water Margin and the rise of vernacular fiction against the background of the vernacularization of premodern Chinese literature as a whole. This gradual and arduous process, as the book convincingly shows, was driven by sustained contact and interaction between written culture and popular orality. Ge examines the stylistic and linguistic features of the novel against those of other works of early Chinese vernacular literature (stories, in particular), revealing an accretion of features typical of different historical periods and a prolonged and cumulative process of textualization. In addition to providing a meticulous philological study, his work offers a new reading of the novel that interprets some of its salient characteristics in terms of the interplay between audience, storytellers, and men of letters associated with popular orality.