@article{1478843, author = {Lewis, Mark Edward, }, url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/1478843}, title = {China's Cosmopolitan Empire : The Tang Dynasty /}, abstract = {The Tang dynasty is often called China's "golden age," a period of commercial, religious, and cultural connections from Korea and Japan to the Persian Gulf, and a time of unsurpassed literary creativity. Mark Lewis captures a dynamic era in which the empire reached its greatest geographical extent under Chinese rule, painting and ceramic arts flourished, women played a major role both as rulers and in the economy, and China produced its finest lyric poets in Wang Wei, Li Bo, and Du Fu.}, doi = {https://doi.org/10.4159/9780674054196}, recid = {1478843}, pages = {1 online resource (368 p.)}, }