Song China and the Forging of an East Asian World Order
by
Nicolas Tackett
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2017
In this major new study, Nicolas Tackett proposes that the Northern Song Dynasty (960–1127) witnessed both the maturation of an East Asian inter-state system and the emergence of a new worldview and sense of Chinese identity among educated elites. These developments together had sweeping repercussions...