More Details

Summary:

"In the late fifth century, a nameless girl was born at the edge of the Chinese empire. By the time of her death, she had transformed herself into Empress Dowager Ling, one of the most powerful politicians of her age and one of the first of many Buddhist women to wield incredible influence in dynastic East Asia. In this book, Stephanie Balkwill documents the Empress Dowager's rise to power and life on the throne against the broader social world of imperial China under the rule of the Northern Wei dynasty, a foreign people from Inner Asia who built their capital deep in the Chinese heartland. Building on largely untapped Buddhist materials, Balkwill shows that the life and rule of the Empress Dowager is a much larger story of the reinvention of religious, ethnic, and gender norms in a rapidly changing, multicultural society. When Women Ruled China recovers the voices of those left out of the mainstream historical record and, through the life of the Empress Dowager, paints a compelling portrait of medieval Chinese society reinventing itself under her leadership"-- [Provided by publisher]

Table of Contents:

• Luoyang reborn
• A woman of power, remembered poorly
• Brought to court by a nun
• A girl on the throne
• No salvation in Buddhism.

Author/Creator:

Balkwill, Stephanie , author

Languages:

English

Language Notes:

Item content: English

Main Work:

The women who ruled China: Buddhism, multiculturalism, and governance in the sixth century [by Balkwill, S.]

Other Related Resources:

Print version: Women who ruled China [by Balkwill, S.] (Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2024] — ISBN 9780520401815; LCCN 2023052485)

Subjects:

Ling, Empress dowager of China, approximately 490-528

Buddhism — China — History — To 581

Multiculturalism — China — History — To 1500

China — History — Northern Wei dynasty, 386-534

To 1500

Multiculturalism

Northern Wei Dynasty (China)

Buddhism

China

Genres:

History

General Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Description based on: Print version record.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Digital Characteristics:

text file

Call Numbers:

DS748.76.L56 B355 2024eb

ISBNs:

9780520401822 (ebook)
0520401824
9780520401815 (paperback) [Invalid]

Library of Congress Control Numbers:

2023052486

OCLC Numbers:

1427062987