The age of Confucian rule : the Song transformation of China /

The age of Confucian rule : the Song transformation of China / Dieter Kuhn.

"With the chaotic dissolution of the Tang dynasty, the old aristocratic families vanished. A new class of scholar-officials - products of a meritocratic examination system - took up the task of reshaping Chinese tradition by adapting the precepts of Confucianism to a rapidly changing world. Thr...

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Main Author: Kuhn, Dieter, 1946-
Other title:Song transformation of China.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Cambridge, Mass. : Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2009.
Series:History of imperial China.
Subjects:
Confucianism and state > China.
China > History > Song dynasty, 960-1279.
China > Intellectual life > 221 B.C.-960 A.D.

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