章节目录
Acknowledgements iii Abbreviations and Conventions iv Introduction 1 0.1. The Transformation of Medieval Elites 3 0.2. Tomb epitaphs as a historical source 9 FIGURES 18 Chapter 1: Structures and Values of the Elites 25 1.1. Officeholders and their values 27 1.2. Merchants, landowners, and their ideals 33 1.3. Relative economic wealth of elites 41 1.4. Regional distribution of elites 44 1.5. Conclusion 47 FIGURES 50 Chapter 2: The Medieval Aristocracy 60 2.1. Past scholarship 62 2.2. Choronyms, clan lists, and local prestige 65 2.3. Legitimacy of great clan claims 72 2.4. The northeastern and southeastern aristocracies 78 2.5. Survival of genealogies and genealogical knowledge 86 2.6. Aristocratic mentality in the tenth century 89 2.7. Conclusion 93 APPENDIX. Preliminary observations on the impact of Hebei provincial culture on Luoyang metropolitan society 99 FIGURES 101 Chapter 3: Intergenerational Social Mobility and Marriage Ties 109 3.1. Social differentiation of elite types 111 3.2. Upward mobility among civilian bureaucrats 114 3.3. Upward social mobility in the military 122 3.4. Intergenerational elite-type mobility 125 3.5. Exogamous marriages 132 3.6. Youzhou civil-military elites 135 3.7. Conclusion 136 FIGURES 140 i Chapter 4: Elite Migration 145 4.1. Identifying migrants 147 4.2. Elite migration before Huang Chao’s Rebellion 149 4.3. Elite migration after Huang Chao’s Rebellion 155 4.4. The geography of migration 162 4.5. The social and human impact of migration 167 4.6. Conclusion 173 FIGURES 178 Chapter 5: Geography of Power 181 5.1. Migration in groups 183 5.2. Regional overrepresentation at the capital 190 5.3. Capital elites 199 5.4. Conclusion 206 FIGURES 210 Conclusion 212 Bibliography 218 Person Name Index 231
内容简介
The complete disappearance by the tenth century of the medieval Chinese aristocracy, the "great clans" that had dominated China for centuries, has long perplexed historians. In this book, Nicolas Tackett resolves the enigma of their disappearance by using new, digital methodologies to analyze a dazzling array of sources. He systematically exploits the thousands of funerary biographies excavated in recent decades--most of them never before examined by scholars--while taking full advantage of the explanatory power of Geographic Information System (GIS) and social network analysis. Tackett supplements these analyses with an extensive use of anecdotes culled from epitaphs, prose literature, and poetry, bringing to life the women and men of a millennium ago. The Destruction of the Medieval Chinese Aristocracy demonstrates that the great Tang aristocratic families were far more successful than previously believed in adapting to the social, economic, and institutional transformations of the seventh and eighth centuries. Their political influence collapsed only after a large proportion of them were physically eliminated during the three decades of extreme violence that followed Huang Chao's sack of the capital cities in 880 CE.
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