TY - BOOK ID - 77880025 TI - China's Cosmopolitan Empire PY - 2021 SN - 0674054199 9780674054196 9780674033061 067403306X 9780674265417 0674265416 PB - Cambridge, MA DB - UniCat KW - China KW - History KW - HISTORY / Asia / China. KW - China - History - Tang dynasty, 618-907 UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:77880025 AB - The Tang dynasty is often called China's "golden age," a period of commercial, religious, and cultural connections from Korea and Japan to the Persian Gulf, and a time of unsurpassed literary creativity. Mark Lewis captures a dynamic era in which the empire reached its greatest geographical extent under Chinese rule, painting and ceramic arts flourished, women played a major role both as rulers and in the economy, and China produced its finest lyric poets in Wang Wei, Li Bo, and Du Fu. ER -