'This Culture of Ours': Intellectual Transitions in t'Ang and Sung China

By Peter K. Bol

Book Overview

Addressing one of the great themes in premodern Chinese history, this book traces the transformation of the shared culture of the Chinese learned elite from the seventh to the twelfth centuries. It places the rede nition of "This Culture of Ours" in the context of social change: the decline of the aristocratic clans of the T'ang dynasty (618-907) and the rise of the scholar-of cials and literati local elites of the Sung dynasty (960-1279).

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0804719209
• ISBN13: 9780804719209
• Release Date: May 1992
• Publisher: Stanford University Press
• Length: 532 Pages
• Weight: 1.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.5" x 6.0" x 9.0"