Richard L. Davis is chair professor of history at Lingnan University, Foundation Fellow of the Hong Kong Academy of the Humanities, and president of Song Historians for the Lingnan Region.
"In this evocative and fascinating study of the Later Tang emperor
Mingzong, Richard Davis has brilliantly illuminated a little known
and even less understood period of Chinese history, the interval
between the unified Tang empire and the Song dynasty whe
"The political history of the early tenth century is not for the
faint of heart. Shatuo Turks, Kitans, and Han Chinese, from
aspirants to the throne, to surrogate sons, generals, mutineers,
and courtiers were all maneuvering for advantage as
circumstances
"This is a fascinating portrait of a man who contrived in his way
to be a good ruler and was to die of natural causes in an age when
life was for most in China nasty, brutish and all too short, and
who, moreover, by instituting the preservation of the Chi
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