The Country of Streams and Grottoes - Expansion, Settlement, and the Civilizing of the Sichuan Frontier in Song Times

About the author

Richard von Glahn is Professor of Chinese History at the University of California, Los Angeles.

Summary

This book describes how the remote Luzhou area of Sichuan became fully integrated into Chinese civilization as administrative structures emerged in towns and villages. Richard von Glahn argues that policy decisions by the central government and economic imperatives from core regions instigated and determined local development.

Product details

• Authors: Richard von Glahn, Glahn Richard Von, Richard von Glahn
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 10.02.1988
• EAN: 9780674175433
• ISBN: 978-0-674-17543-3
• No. of pages: 304
• Dimensions: 162 mm x 231 mm x 30 mm
• Weight: 612 g
• Illustrations: maps
• Series: Harvard East Asian Monographs; East Asian Monograph; Harvard East Asian Monographs; East Asian Monograph; Harvard East Asian Monographs (HUP)
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous