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The Age of Confucian Rule: The Song Transformation of China, and: The Cambridge History of China, Volume 5 Part One: The Sung Dynasty and Its Precursors, 907–1279 (review)
Ist Teil von
Journal of Song-Yuan studies, 2010, Vol.40 (1), p.131-140
Ort / Verlag
Hsinchu: The Society for Song, Yuan, and Conquest Dynasty Studies
Erscheinungsjahr
2010
Link zum Volltext
Quelle
Alma/SFX Local Collection
Beschreibungen/Notizen
Dieter Kuhn’s book is the fourth of six volumes in Harvard University Press’s History of Imperial China edited by Timothy Brook. Kuhn opens with the view of Lü Gongzhu 呂公著, “a close companion of the Song chief councilor Sima Guang and sometime tutor of the heir apparent,” about the Mandate of Heaven and then deftly jumps back to 805, to start the book with the declining years of the Tang (p. 10). Kuhn’s book title indicates the centrality of Confucianism to his understanding of the Song; his category of Confucians includes both reformers like Fan Zhongyan as well as members of the Daoxue school of thought. In keeping with this structure, Paul J. Smith states the book’s goal: “our task here is to present the political history of China from the fall of the T’ang dynasty in 907 to the Mongol conquest of the Southern Sung in 1279” (p. 1).