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> H-ASIA
> April 18, 2011
>
> Member book announcement, _China's Southern Tang Dynasty, 937-976_
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> From: "Johannes L. Kurz" <jolukurz@gmail.com>
>
> Dear H-Asia editor,
>
> please find below a description of my new book which may be of
> interest to some subscribers on the list.
>
> Best wishes from Brunei
> Johannes
>
> Johannes L. Kurz
> Historical Studies
> Universiti Brunei Darussalam
>
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> _China's Southern Tang Dynasty, 937-976_
> London/New York: Routledge, 2011. 3 plates, 138pp. ISBN 978-0-415-45496-4
>
> The Southern Tang was one of China's minor dynasties and one of the
> great states in China in the tenth century. Although often regarded as
> one of several states preceding the much better known Song dynasty
> (960-1279), the Southern Tang dynasty was in fact the key state in
> this period, preserving cultural values and artefacts from the former
> great Tang dynasty (618-907) that were to form the basis of Song rule
> and thereby presenting the Song with a direct link to the Tang and its
> traditions.
>
> Drawing mainly on primary Chinese sources, this is the first book in
> English to provide a comprehensive overview of the Southern Tang and
> full coverage of the military, cultural and political history of the
> period. It focuses on a successful, albeit short-lived, attempt to set
> up an independent regional state in the modern provinces of Jiangxi
> and Jiangsu and establishes the Southern Tang dynasty in its own
> right. It follows the rise of the Southern Tang state to become the
> predominant claimant of the Tang heritage and the expansionist
> policies of the second ruler, culminating in the occupation and
> annexation of two of the Southern Tang's neighbours, Min (Fujian) and
> Chu (Hunan). Finally, the narrative describes the decline of the
> dynasty under its last ruler, the famous poet Li Yu, and its ultimate
> surrender to the Song dynasty.
>
> Johannes L. Kurz is Senior Lecturer in the History Department at
> Universiti Brunei Darussalam. He is the author of Das
> Kompilationsprojekt Song Taizongs (reg. 976-997) (2003).
>
>
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