The period of the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms (907-960) has long been treated as an anomaly in the history of China, an age of great disunity between the em

Only fragments of historical text from China's middle period have been translated into English, until now. Here at last is the first major Chinese historical wo

This book describes the selection, processing and editing of material for an authorized history of the T'ang.

Patrons and Patriarchs breaks new ground in the study of clergy-court relations during the tumultuous period that spanned the collapse of the Tang dynasty (618�

Mingzong (r. 926–33) was the most illustrious emperor of the Five Dynasties, and one of the most admired of China’s middle period, the Tang to Song. A warri