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Kingship in Early Medieval China
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Andrew Eisenberg
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English
Published/Copyright:
2008
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The institution of the Retired Emperor forms the innovative angle from which this study analyzes Classical Chinese political history (4th to 7th centuries A.D.) With the help of the ensuing insights the volume develops into a portal through which to gain understanding of broader patterns of political and social action relevant to the Classical Chinese monarchy. In this truly interdisciplinary approach Weberian historical sociological concepts are engaged as a means of bringing specific historical actions into a wider cross cultural comparative perspective and lays the basis for a new framework to think about kingship and succession in East Asia.
Author / Editor information
Andrew Eisenberg, Ph.D. (1991) in History, University of Washington, Seattle, is Associate Professor of History at Northeastern Illinois University in Chicago. He has published essays on Classical Chinese political history in the journals T'ang Studies, Theory and Society, and T'oung Pao. This is his first full length monograph.
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eBook published on:
February 28, 2008
eBook ISBN:
9789047432302
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Main content:
284
eBook ISBN:
9789047432302
Keywords for this book
political; history; imperial; succession; classical; Chinese; Tang; dynasty; Weberian; historical; sociology
Audience(s) for this book
Historians (both China oriented and cross cultural conparativists), sociologists, political scientists, anthropologists. All academic institutions and libraries with above programs will be interested.
