Between Tang and Song: The Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms Era

The Five Dynasties. The Ten Kingdoms. The names themselves suggest a dark age of chaos and collapse between China's two most celebrated eras, the Tang and the Song. This book argues the opposite: that this was one of the most pivotal and creative periods in Chinese history, a foundational crucible where the aristocratic world of the Tang was violently reforged into the China of the next millennium...