China between Empires
The Northern and Southern Dynasties (History of Imperial China)
by Mark Edward Lewis
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appears in Chinese History, History, and Nonfiction.
After the collapse of the Han dynasty in the third century CE, China divided along a northsouth line. Mark Lewis traces the changes that both underlay and resulted from this split in a period that saw the geographic redefinition of China, more engagement with the outside world, significant changes to family life, developments in the literary and s...
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appears in Chinese History, History, and Nonfiction.
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