TY  - BOOK
N2  - 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.
AB  - 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.
T1  - T'ang China :the rise of the East in world history /
DA  - 2004.
CY  - Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ;
CY  - New York :
AU  - Adshead, Samuel Adrian M.
CN  - DS749.35
CN  - DS749.35
PB  - Palgrave Macmillan,
PP  - Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ;
PP  - New York :
PY  - 2004.
ID  - 850448
KW  - International economic relations
KW  - Capitalism
KW  - Competition, International
KW  - Economic history.
SN  - 9781403934574
SN  - 1403934576
SN  - 9781403934567
SN  - 1403934568
TI  - T'ang China :the rise of the East in world history /
ER  -