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From Warhorses to Ploughshares

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Mingzong (r. 926-933) was the most illustrious emperor of the Five Dynasties, and one of the most admired of China's middle period, the Tang to Song. A warrior of Shatuo-Turk ancestry, he ascended ...
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Price: £45.00
Pages: 236
Publisher: Hong Kong University Press
Imprint: Hong Kong University Press
Publication Date: 01 December 2014
Trim Size: 9.00 X 6.10 in
ISBN: 9789888208104
Format: Hardcover
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"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