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《Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms》内容简介
Edited by Peter Lorge / Chinese University of Hongkong / 400 HKD -
The period of the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms (907–960) has long been treated as an anomaly in the history of China, an age of great disunity between the empires of the Tang and the Song dynasties. Breaking with previous scholarship on China's middle period, this edited volume presents individual studies that focus on the art, culture, and politics of the interregnum, challenging underlying assumptions about the unitary nature of dynastic culture and its value as a category of historical analysis. It understands these decades as a time of important transition in which the incipient cultural shifts of the mature Tang dynasty turned into the foundations of Song society. Consequently it highlights the complex narrative processes that gave birth to Song culture.
書評
"The devolution of power to regional regimes in tenth-century China is traditionally condemned as a simple failure of the imperial project. But the competitive, multipolar configuration of power was also a catalyst for the economic, cultural and social transformations that ushered in the early modern age. Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms provides an essential key for the overdue, critical reappraisal of this turning point in Chinese history. Besides analyzing the ambitions of loyalists, warlords and statesmen, the contributors to this volume expertly illustrate the dynamics of local change and innovation in areas as diverse as painting, territorial administration, and architecture."
── Franciscus Verellen,
Director of the Ecole française d'Extrême-Orient
"Extending temporally from late Tang to early Song and topically from art and archaeology to politics and institutions, Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms challenges a panoply of entrenched assumptions about the period while suggesting new paths for further inquiry. The tenth century, commonly characterized as a rupture, emerges instead as an important link between Tang and Song, and at the same time, a period that stands on its own."
── Ric
The period of the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms (907–960) has long been treated as an anomaly in the history of China, an age of great disunity between the empires of the Tang and the Song dynasties. Breaking with previous scholarship on China's middle period, this edited volume presents individual studies that focus on the art, culture, and politics of the interregnum, challenging underlying assumptions about the unitary nature of dynastic culture and its value as a category of historical analysis. It understands these decades as a time of important transition in which the incipient cultural shifts of the mature Tang dynasty turned into the foundations of Song society. Consequently it highlights the complex narrative processes that gave birth to Song culture.
書評
"The devolution of power to regional regimes in tenth-century China is traditionally condemned as a simple failure of the imperial project. But the competitive, multipolar configuration of power was also a catalyst for the economic, cultural and social transformations that ushered in the early modern age. Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms provides an essential key for the overdue, critical reappraisal of this turning point in Chinese history. Besides analyzing the ambitions of loyalists, warlords and statesmen, the contributors to this volume expertly illustrate the dynamics of local change and innovation in areas as diverse as painting, territorial administration, and architecture."
── Franciscus Verellen,
Director of the Ecole française d'Extrême-Orient
"Extending temporally from late Tang to early Song and topically from art and archaeology to politics and institutions, Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms challenges a panoply of entrenched assumptions about the period while suggesting new paths for further inquiry. The tenth century, commonly characterized as a rupture, emerges instead as an important link between Tang and Song, and at the same time, a period that stands on its own."
── Ric