![]() | State Power in China, 900-1325 Subjects: 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; 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, State Power in China, 900-1325 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? Patricia Buckley Ebrey is professor of history at the University of Washington. She is the author of Accumulating Culture: The Collections of Emperor Huizong . Paul Jakov Smith is professor of history at Haverford College. He is coeditor of The Song-Yuan-Ming Transition in Chinese History . The other contributors are Elad Alyagon, Song Chen, Charles Hartman, Li Huarui, Tracy Miller, Jaeyoon Song, and Cong Ellen Zhang |
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