Ebook {Epub PDF} China Between Empires: The Northern and Southern Dynasties by Mark Edward Lewis

China between empires: the northern and southern dynasties Item Preview remove-circle Share or Embed This Item. Share to Twitter. Share to Facebook. China between empires: the northern and southern dynasties by Lewis, Mark Edward, Publication date Topics China -- History -- PublisherUser Interaction Count: China Between Empires: The Northern and Southern Dynasties Volume 2 of History of Imperial China: Authors: Mark Edward Lewis, Kwoh-Ting Li Professor in Chinese Culture Mark Edward Lewis: Editor: Timothy Brook: Edition: illustrated: Publisher: Harvard University Press, ISBN: , Length: pages: Subjects. For this book Mark E. Lewis has chosen the same structure as in his other two contributions to the series - The Early Chinese Empires: Qin and Han (History of Imperial China) and China's Cosmopolitan Empire: The Tang Dynasty (History of Imperial China), i.e. he is only giving a rather short narrative of the political history, and then covers Cited by: 3.

Mark Edward Lewis's research deals with many aspects of Chinese civilization in the late pre-imperial, China Between Empires: The Northern and Southern Dynasties, and China's Cosmopolitan Empire: The Tang Dynasty. These volumes serve as introductions to the major periods of Chinese history for non-specialists, and as background readings. Lewis, Mark Edward (). China between Empires: The Northern and Southern Dynasties. Harvard University Press. ISBN Miller, Roy Andrew (): Accounts of Western Nations in the History of the Northern Chou Dynasty. University of California Press. Wright, Arthur F. (). Buddhism in Chinese History. Stanford: Stanford. Mark Edward Lewis. China between Empires: The Northern and Southern Dynasties. (History of Imperial China.) Cambridge: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press. Pp. $

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. Mark Edward Lewis. · Rating details · ratings · 23 reviews. After the collapse of the Han dynasty in the third century A.D., 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 i. China between Empires: The Northern and Southern Dynasties. Cambridge, MA: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, pp. Includes index, bibliography, illustrations, and maps. Hardcover $, isbn © by University ofHawai'i Press Mark Lewis's volume is the second in a series, which began with The Early Chinese.