{"product_id":"b0fgznkb3n","title":"The Sui, Tang, Five Dynasties: A History of China: PART THREE","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe An Lushan Rebellion had failed to destroy the Tang dynasty—but surviving the catastrophe created a new problem: who actually controlled the empire afterward?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe Sui, Tang, Five Dynasties: A History of China — Part Three  follows the Tang dynasty from Emperor Daizong’s accession in 762 CE through the increasingly unstable world of the late ninth century. Imperial rulers struggle with powerful eunuchs and increasingly autonomous  jiedushi  military governors, while figures such as  Guo Ziyi, Emperor Dezong, Emperor Xianzong, Emperor Wuzong, Li Deyu, and Zhang Yichao  try in very different ways to hold the state together.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe story ranges from  Chang’an, Luoyang, Hebei, and the Hexi Corridor  to the frontiers contested with the  Tibetan Empire  and the  Uyghur Khaganate . It takes in the Yongzhen Reform, the struggle to restore imperial authority, the Sweet Dew Incident, religious persecution under Wuzong, frontier recovery, and the mounting pressures that eventually feed the  Huang Chao Rebellion . In its later chapters,  Huang Chao, Li Keyong and his Shatuo cavalry, Emperor Xizong, and Zhu Wen  emerge from a political order increasingly governed by military power and shifting loyalties.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eWritten as accessible narrative history, the book explains complicated politics through the people making the decisions: emperors, ministers, generals, rebels, eunuchs, and regional warlords trying to survive a dynasty that could still look magnificent even as control steadily slipped from the center.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"ANT","offers":[{"title":"Ebook","offer_id":67924613923061,"sku":"YSL53376","price":5.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/8774\/8597\/files\/810y4nivzpL._SY1500.jpg?v=1793673339","url":"https:\/\/www.newbooks.store\/products\/b0fgznkb3n","provider":"NewBooks","version":"1.0","type":"link"}