Peter Lorge

The Reunification of China

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Produktbeschreibung

A groundbreaking work examining the military and political events that shaped the Song dynasty (960-1279) in China.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 310
• Erscheinungstermin: 21. November 2017
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 452g
• ISBN-13: 9781107446793
• ISBN-10: 1107446791
• Artikelnr.: 50438488

Autorenporträt

Peter Lorge specializes in tenth- and eleventh-century Chinese military history and thought, and is the author, most recently, of Chinese Martial Arts: From Antiquity to the Twenty-First Century (Cambridge, 2012), and editor of Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms (2010), and Debating War in Chinese History (2013) and Chinese and Indian Warfare: From the Classical Age to 1870 (with Kaushik Roy, 2014). His earlier books include War, Politics and Society in Early Modern China, 900-1795 (2005) and The Asian Military Revolution: From Gunpowder to the Bomb (Cambridge, 2008). He is also the editor of a book series with Routledge, Asian States and Empires. He is currently working on a history of Chinese military thought from the third to the thirteenth centuries.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction
2. Historiography, methodology, and Song military and political history
3. The pivot of the tenth century
4. Rebuilding the empire
5. The army and the creation of the Song dynasty
6. Personal politics and the campaigns of conquest
7. Separating war and politics
8. Fighting to become emperor
9. Failure and rebellion
10. The end of the beginning
11. Conclusion
Bibliography
Index.