Title: Information, Territory, and Networks
Description: "Based on a close reading of responses to official records and derivatives and a mapping of literati networks, the book proposes that the twelfth-century geopolitical crisis in Song China resulted in a lasting literati preference for imperial restoration and unified rule. It reorients the debate about the social transformation and local turn of imperial Chinese elites"--Provided by publisher.
Subjects: Imperialism, Elite (social sciences), China, history, 960-1644, China, foreign relations, China, boundaries, Boundaries, Foreign relations, History, Diplomatic relations, Song Dynasty (China)