T'ang China

This book presents a picture focused on the T'ang period, one of China's acknowledged golden ages. Within a looser web of globalization, the T'ang period and its dynamics offers a distant mirror of our own time. An argument in world history may thus cast light on issues in contemporary politics.

Introduction Polemic: Before the Rise of the East André Gunder Frank's Concept of the World Order A Critique of André Gunder Frank's Concept of the World Order The Preponderance of the West Politics: The Genius of T'ang The Sui-T'ang Refoundation The Silver T'ang Restoration The Sung Counter-Revolution Contrast with the West Economy: China takes Centre Stage The Milieu of Chinese Economic Growth 500-1000 The Motors of Chinese Economic Growth 500-1000 The Management of Chinese Economic Growth 500-1000 Cross-Economic Comparison 500-1000 Society: A Multiple China The Interface Between the Economy and Society The Matrix of Social Activity: Family and Friends An Anthropology of Chinese Marriage Non-Kinship Institutions: A Multiple Associationism Cross-Social Comparisons 500-1000 Intellect: China's Complex Pluralism China's Intellectual Complexity China's Intellectual Pluralism Eurasian Intellectual Comparisons 500-1000 Return to the West: Reflux and Prognosis Politics 500-1000 Economy 1000-1500 Society 1000-1500 Intellect 1000-1500 Prognosis