Tang ‘cosmopolitanism': Towards a critical and holistic approach
By: Yang, Shao-yun
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BookPublisher: Modern Asian Studies Description: 58(4), Jul, 2024: p.1069-1093.Subject(s): Tang dynasty, Cosmopolitanism, Empire
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Modern Asian StudiesSummary: The Tang dynasty is the only period of Chinese history to which the word ‘cosmopolitan’ is now routinely applied in Western-language historical writing. This article traces the origins of this glamorous image of the Tang to the 1950s and 1960s, but also links its current popularity to a more recent increase in the appeal of the concept of cosmopolitanism, as well as the idea of a ‘cosmopolitan empire’ among Western intellectuals since the end of the Cold War. The article then proposes a less presentist and more critical and holistic reading of Tang ‘cosmopolitanism’ as part of a larger, interconnected, multi-centred, and changing medieval world of numerous coexisting cosmopolitanisms, and argues for recognizing the existence of a different but equally important mode of ‘cosmopolitanism’ in the Song.- Reproduced
https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/modern-asian-studies/article/tang-cosmopolitanism-towards-a-critical-and-holistic-approach/16309DB09C12BB94DDEB656A0A8F7540
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The Tang dynasty is the only period of Chinese history to which the word ‘cosmopolitan’ is now routinely applied in Western-language historical writing. This article traces the origins of this glamorous image of the Tang to the 1950s and 1960s, but also links its current popularity to a more recent increase in the appeal of the concept of cosmopolitanism, as well as the idea of a ‘cosmopolitan empire’ among Western intellectuals since the end of the Cold War. The article then proposes a less presentist and more critical and holistic reading of Tang ‘cosmopolitanism’ as part of a larger, interconnected, multi-centred, and changing medieval world of numerous coexisting cosmopolitanisms, and argues for recognizing the existence of a different but equally important mode of ‘cosmopolitanism’ in the Song.- Reproduced
https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/modern-asian-studies/article/tang-cosmopolitanism-towards-a-critical-and-holistic-approach/16309DB09C12BB94DDEB656A0A8F7540
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