China's Golden Age: Everyday Life in the Tang Dynasty, Paperback - Charles D. Benn

Reducere. The Tang Dynasty (618-907), traditionally regarded as the golden age of China, was a time of patricians and intellectuals, Buddhist monks and Taois...

Contributor(s): Author: Mark Edward LewisEditor: Timothy BrookThe Tang dynasty is often called China's "golden age, " a period of commercial, relig...

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The definitive history of the Opium War between Britain and China in the nineteenth century, shortlisted for the 2018 Baillie Gifford Prize.

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This book explores what life was really like for everyday people in the Islamic Golden Age, including Baghdad around AD900. Supported by timelines,...

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Julian Romane examines the military events behind the emergence of the Sui and Tang dynasties in the period 581-626 AD. Narrating the campaigns and...

Reducere. Tang Dynasty (AD618-907) is one of most powerful and prosperous dynasties in Chinese history, it is also a great era of cultural development, the p...

This book explores what life was really like for everyday people in the Islamic Golden Age, including Baghdad around AD900. Supported by timelines,...

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In the teeming, disordered, and sexually charged square half-mile centred on London's Covent Garden something extraordinary evolved in the eighteen...

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If you want to discover the captivating history of the Qing Dynasty, then keep reading...Succeeding the Ming dynasty in 1644, the Qing emperors man...

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This is a playful book that is tailor-made for readers who want an unstuffy, unpretentious way of enjoying Shakespeare's extraordinary words and im...

Publisher: University of California PressAuthor(s): John LieNumber of pages: 342Publication date: 2021Dimensions: 153 x 230 x 18Cover type: Paperba...

Redescopera farmecul lecturii si alege-ti de pe elefant.ro carti in limba engleza scrise de autori consacrati. Iti punem la dispozitie sute de mii ...

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In this book Saint Germain explains that his actual vision for what is possible in his Golden Age is so far beyond what we see manifest today that ...

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"Coming of Age in Jim Crow DC explores the racial politics of everyday life in DC."

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An account of how Spanish painters of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries dealt with mystic visions in their art, and of how they attempted to ...

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This book takes an entertaining approach to teaching practical strategies for success in everyday decision-making. In its 101 two-page lessons can ...

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Reducere. Hailed as the most important and most comprehensive single study of Tang poetry to have appeared in English when originally published by Yale Unive...

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