Binding: Hardcover Dewey Decimal Number: 951.01 EAN: 9780804719209 ISBN: 0804719209 Label: Stanford University Press Manufacturer: Stanford University Press Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 532 Publication Date: 1992-05-01 Publisher: Stanford University Press Studio: Stanford University Press
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.
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Customer Rating: Summary: this culture of ours Comment: this culture of ours: intellectual transitions in t'ang and sung china by peter k.bol(stanford: standford university press, 1992) Customer Rating: Summary: From a leading scholar Comment: This is a dense, rigorous, and illuminating study of the political and intellectual changes from the Tang to the Song dynasties. The author is considered one of the leading Western intellectual historians writing on China today, and it is this monograph which has made his reputation.