Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms
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Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms

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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

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