Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms
About this book
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.
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Table of contents
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Dedication
- List of Contributors
- Contents
- Introduction
- Who Wants to Be an Emperor?
- Scoundrels, Rogues, and Refugees:The Founders of the Ten Kingdoms in the Late Ninth Century
- Han Xizai (902–970): An Eccentric Life in Exciting Times
- Lessons from Paintings at the Periphery:The Murals from Baoshan Tomb 2 and Five Dynasties Art History
- “The Usurper’s Empty Names”: Spatial Organizationand State Power in the Tang-Song Transition
- Something Old, Something New, SomethingBorrowed: Local Style in the Architecture of Tenth-Century China
- The End of the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms
- Chronology of Dynasties, Kingdoms and States
- Index