State Power in China, 900-1325
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Patricia Buckley Ebrey (Contributor) Paul Jakov Smith (Contributor)
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This collection provides new ways to understand how state power was exercised during the overlapping Liao, Song, Jin, and Yuan dynasties. Through a set of case studies, State Power in China, 900-1325 examines large questions concerning dynastic legitimacy, factional strife, the relationship between the literati and the state, and the value of centralization. How was state power exercised? Why did factional strife periodically become ferocious? Which problems did reformers seek to address? Could subordinate groups resist the state? How did politics shape the sources that survive?
The nine essays in this volume explore key elements of state power, ranging from armies, taxes, and imperial patronage to factional struggles, officials' personal networks, and ways to secure control of conquered territory. Drawing on new sources, research methods, and historical perspectives, the contributors illuminate the institutional side of state power while confronting evidence of instability and change-of ways to gain, lose, or exercise power. 19 b&w illus., 5 maps, 28 tables
About the Author
Patricia Buckley Ebrey is professor of history at the University of Washington. She is the author of Accumulating Culture: The Collections of Emperor Huizong. Paul Jakov Smith is professor of history at Haverford College. He is coeditor of The Song-Yuan-Ming Transition in Chinese History. The other contributors are Elad Alyagon, Song Chen, Charles Hartman, Li Huarui, Tracy Miller, Jaeyoon Song, and Cong Ellen Zhang
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- Contributor: Patricia Buckley Ebrey
- Imprint: University of Washington Press
- ISBN13: 9780295998107
- Number of Pages: 372
- Packaged Dimensions: 152x229mm
- Packaged Weight: 658
- Format: Hardback
- Publisher: University of Washington Press
- Release Date: 2016-07-19
- Binding: Hardback
- Biography: Patricia Buckley Ebrey is professor of history at the University of Washington. She is the author of Accumulating Culture: The Collections of Emperor Huizong. Paul Jakov Smith is professor of history at Haverford College. He is coeditor of The Song-Yuan-Ming Transition in Chinese History. The other contributors are Elad Alyagon, Song Chen, Charles Hartman, Li Huarui, Tracy Miller, Jaeyoon Song, and Cong Ellen Zhang
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