The Thought of Chang Tsai (10201077)
Edition: New Ed edition
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: July 25, 2002
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 223
ISBN-13: 9780521529471
Subjects: History of ideas, intellectual history; Oriental & Indian philosophy; Politics/International Relations; Political Science; Politics / Current Events; History & Theory - General; Political Science / History & Theory
First sentence: By the time of the Sung dynasty, the 'great families' which had dominated Chinese society from the Han dynasty (206 B.C.-A.D. 220) into the late T'ang gradually lost their preeminent position, and by the eleventh century a new elite had emerged.
Notes: Cambridge Studies in Chinese History, Literature and Institutions