@article{850448,
      recid = {850448},
      author = {Adshead, Samuel Adrian M.},
      title = {T'ang China : the rise of the East in world history /},
      publisher = {Palgrave Macmillan,},
      address = {Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ;},
      pages = {xvii, 233 pages ;},
      year = {2004},
      abstract = {China's role in world history has been controversial,  especially as seen through an economic lens. This book  presents an alternative interpretation of that role, less  exclusively economic, more broadly based, and focused on  the T'ang period, one of China's acknowledged golden ages.  It shows how a different China, Buddhist or Taoist rather  than Confucian, aristocratic as much as meritocratic,  achieved, through openness to the outside world and  partnership with its elites, a multiple preeminence in  politics, economics, society and the intellect, not unlike  that enjoyed by the United States today. Within a looser  web of globalization, the T'ang period and its dynamics  offers a distant mirror of our own time, casting a new  light on issues in contemporary politics. --From  publisher's description.},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/850448},
}