State power in China, 900-1325

Format:

Online Resource

Language:

English

Imprint:

Seattle : University of Washington Press, 2016 and ©2016

Subject:

China - History - Liao dynasty, 947-1125
China - History - Song dynasty, 960-1279
China - History - Jin dynasty, 1115-1234
China - History - Yuan dynasty, 1260-1368
State, The - History - To 1500
Power (Social sciences) - China - History - To 1500
Political culture - China - History - To 1500
Literature and state - China - History - To 1500
Civil-military relations - China - History - To 1500
Social change - China - History - To 1500
Civil-military relations
Jin Dynasty (China : 1115-1234)
Liao Dynasty (China)
Literature and state
Political culture
Power (Social sciences)
Social change
Song Dynasty (China)
State, The
Yuan Dynasty (China)
China
HISTORY / Asia / China

Contributor:

Ebrey, Patricia Buckley, editor
Smith, Paul J., editor

ISBN:

9780295998480 and 0295998482

Description:

1 online resource (ix, 363 pages)

Bibliographic Note:

Includes bibliographical references and index

Contents:

Part 1. The ruling house -- Invoking higher authorities : Song Taizong's quest for imperial legitimacy and its architectural legacy / Tracy Miller -- Cao Xun and the legend of emperor Taizu's oath / Charles Hartman -- Part 2. The literati and the political system -- Governing a multicentered state : prefects and their networks in the 1040s and 1210s / Song Chen -- Anatomies of reform : the Qingli-era reforms of Fan Zhongyan and the new policies of Wang Anshi compared / Paul Jakov Smith -- Bureaucratic politics and commemorative biography : the epitaphs of Fan Zhongyan / Cong Ellen Zhang -- Part 3. Statecraft theory -- Northern Song reformist thought and its sources : Wang Anshi and Mencius / Li Huarui -- Debates on just taxation in Ma Duanlin's comprehensive survey / Jaeyoon Song -- Part 4. State power in practice -- Soldier mutinies and resistance during the northern Song / Elad Alyagon -- State-forced relocations in China, 900-1300 -- Patricia Buckley Ebrey -- Glossary of Chinese characters

Summary:

"This collection provides new ways to understand how state power was exercised during the overlapping Liao, Song, Jin, and Yuan dynasties. Through a set of case studies, it examines large questions concerning dynastic legitimacy, factional strife, the relationship between the literati and the state, and the value of centralization. How was state power exercised? Why did factional strife periodically become ferocious? Which problems did reformers seek to address? Could subordinate groups resist the state? How did politics shape the sources that survive? The nine essays explore key elements of state power, ranging from armies, taxes, and imperial patronage to factional struggles, officials' personal networks, and ways to secure control of conquered territory. Drawing on new sources, research methods, and historical perspectives, the contributors illuminate the institutional side of state power while confronting evidence of instability and change--of ways to gain, lose, or exercise power"--Provided by publisher

Call Number:

DS750.78 .S73 2016