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Eurasian Transformations of the Tenth To Thirteenth Centuries: The View From Song China, 960-1279

Eurasian Transformations of the Tenth To Thirteenth Centuries: The View From Song China, 960-1279 © Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, 2004 Medieval Encounters 10,1-3 Also available online – www.brill.nl 1 For a precis of Naitô’s argument see Hisayuki Miyakawa, “An Outline of the Naitô Hypothesis and its E ff ects on Japanese Studies of China,” The Far Eastern Quarterly 14.4 (1955), 533-552. Richard von Glahn puts the Naitô hypothesis in larger perspective in “Imagining Pre-modern China,” in The Song-Yuan-Ming Transition in Chinese History , eds. Paul Jakov Smith and Richard von Glahn (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Asia Center, 2003), 35-70. EURASIAN TRANSFORMATIONS OF THE TENTH TO THIRTEENTH CENTURIES: THE VIEW FROM SONG CHINA, 960-1279 PAUL JAKOV SMITH ABSTRACT This essay addresses the nature of the medieval transformation of Eurasia from the perspective of China during the Song dynasty (960-1279). Out of the many facets of the wholesale metamorphosis of Chinese society that characterized this era, I focus on the development of an increasingly bureaucratic and autocratic state, the emergence of a semi-autonomous local elite, and the impact on both trends of the rise of the great steppe empires that encircled and, under the Mongols ultimately extinguished the Song. The rapid evolution of Inner Asian state formation in the tenth through the thirteenth centuries not http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Medieval Encounters Brill

Eurasian Transformations of the Tenth To Thirteenth Centuries: The View From Song China, 960-1279

Medieval Encounters , Volume 10 (1-3): 30 – Jan 1, 2004

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Copyright © Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, The Netherlands
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1380-7854
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1570-0674
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10.1163/1570067043077751
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© Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, 2004 Medieval Encounters 10,1-3 Also available online – www.brill.nl 1 For a precis of Naitô’s argument see Hisayuki Miyakawa, “An Outline of the Naitô Hypothesis and its E ff ects on Japanese Studies of China,” The Far Eastern Quarterly 14.4 (1955), 533-552. Richard von Glahn puts the Naitô hypothesis in larger perspective in “Imagining Pre-modern China,” in The Song-Yuan-Ming Transition in Chinese History , eds. Paul Jakov Smith and Richard von Glahn (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Asia Center, 2003), 35-70. EURASIAN TRANSFORMATIONS OF THE TENTH TO THIRTEENTH CENTURIES: THE VIEW FROM SONG CHINA, 960-1279 PAUL JAKOV SMITH ABSTRACT This essay addresses the nature of the medieval transformation of Eurasia from the perspective of China during the Song dynasty (960-1279). Out of the many facets of the wholesale metamorphosis of Chinese society that characterized this era, I focus on the development of an increasingly bureaucratic and autocratic state, the emergence of a semi-autonomous local elite, and the impact on both trends of the rise of the great steppe empires that encircled and, under the Mongols ultimately extinguished the Song. The rapid evolution of Inner Asian state formation in the tenth through the thirteenth centuries not

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