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- Title: Six Dynasties Civilization.
- Author : The Journal of the American Oriental Society
- Release Date : January 01, 2007
- Genre: Social Science,Books,Nonfiction,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 169 KB
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Six Dynasties Civilization. By ALBERT E. DIEN. Early Chinese Civilization Series. New Haven: YALE UNIVERSITY PRESS, 2007. Pp. x + 610, maps. figs. $85. Albert Dien's Six Dynasties Civilization stands as both the culmination of a career's work on early medieval China and as a standing invitation to further scholarship which takes into account the material culture of the age. The book, while explicitly claiming to be a study of Six Dynasties material culture, offers teasing glimpses of the results of scholarship integrating the more familiar textual records of the age with its less familiar material artifacts. Dien directly states his intentions for the book: "It is hoped that this volume will be a start in coming to grips with the material culture of the period and will help further our understanding of Chinese society during this so-called Dark Age between the better known dynasties of the Han and the Tang" (p. viii); and "Perhaps the study of [Six Dynasties] material culture to supplement the written sources will lead to a better, more balanced understanding of that segment of China's history and more insightful generalizations" (p. 14).