China's cosmopolitan empire the Tang dynasty
Tang dynasty
Mark Edward Lewis
- Cambridge, Mass. Belknap Press of Harvard University Press 2009
- 356 p.
- History of Imperial China .
Includes bibliographical references (p. [317]-340) and index.
The geography of the Tang empire -- The restored empire -- Warlords and monopolists in late Tang China -- Tang urban life -- Rural society -- Tang China and the outer world -- Kinship -- Religion -- Tang writing -- Conclusion: the tenth-century transition.