Richard Davis has expertly crafted a stirring narrative of the last years of Song, focusing on loyalist resistance to Mongol dominion. Davis challenges the traditional view of Song martyrdom as a simple expression of political duty by examining the phenomenon instead from the pe…
Richard Davis has expertly crafted a stirring narrative of the last years of Song, focusing on loyalist resistance to Mongol dominion. Davis challenges the traditional view of Song martyrdom as a simple expression of political duty by examining the phenomenon instead from the pe…
This volume is a detailed account of the thirteenth century Chinese, including sections on city life, social class, housing, cooking, personal grooming, as well as births, marriage, and death rituals, and yearly social and religious festivals.
Crisis and prosperity in Sung China
"The realignment of the Chinese social order that took place over the course of the Sung dynasty set the pattern for Chinese society throughout most of the later imperial era. Using data on two groups of Sung elites - the grand councilors who led the bureaucracy, and locally pro…
