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Tales from Tang Dynasty China: Selections from the Taiping Guangji

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Tales from Tang Dynasty China: Selections from the Taiping Guangji - Ditter, Alexei (Editor), and Choo, Jessey (Editor), and Allen, Sarah (Editor)
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Compiled during the Song dynasty (960-1279) at the behest of Emperor Taizong, the Taiping Guangji anthologized thousands of pages of unofficial histories, accounts, and minor stories from the Tang dynasty (618-907). The twenty-two tales translated in this volume, many appearing for the first time in English, reveal the dynamism and diversity of society in Tang China. A lengthy Introduction as well as introductions to each selection further illuminate the social and historical contexts within which these narratives ...

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Tales from Tang Dynasty China: Selections from the Taiping Guangji 2017, Hackett Publishing Company

ISBN-13: 9781624666308

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