China between empires the northern and southern dynasties / [electronic resource] :
Mark Edward Lewis
- Cambridge, Mass. : Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2009
- 1 online resource (340 p.) : ill., maps
- History of imperial China .
- History of imperial China. .
Description based on print version record
Includes bibliographical references (p. [299]-324) and index
The geography of the north and south China -- The rise of the great families -- Military dynasticism -- Urban transformation -- Rural life -- China and the outer world -- Redefining kinship -- Daoism and Buddhism -- Writing.