1st Edition

China's Southern Tang Dynasty, 937-976

By Johannes L. Kurz Copyright 2011
192 Pages 1 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

176 Pages 1 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

160 Pages 1 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

The Southern Tang was one of China’s minor dynasties and one of the great states in China in the tenth century. Although often regarded as one of several states preceding the much better known Song dynasty (960-1279), the Southern Tang dynasty was in fact the key state in this period, preserving cultural values and artefacts from the former great Tang dynasty (618-907) which were to form the... Read more

1. The State of Wu  2. The Founding of the Southern Tang and the Reign of Li Bian  3. The Reign of Li Jing  4. The Reign of Li Yu and the Decline of the Southern Tang 

Biography

Johannes L. Kurz is Senior Lecturer in the History Department at Universiti Brunei Darussalam. He is the author of Das Kompilationsprojekt Song Taizongs (reg. 976-996) (2003).