‘The Making of Song Dynasty History is a masterwork of history and historiography ... who does Song history or who has an interest in how historiography and political culture are entwined. It is a ...

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So what developed was a new urban type of culture that included eating out in restaurants and the drinking of tea. It was really in the Song Dynasty that tea reached its cult status. It was drunk ...

In Structures of Governance, Charles Hartman provides a radically new interpretation of Song dynasty political culture. Building on decades of meticulous work in Song historical sources, Hartman ...

and “served to mark the estate boundary of the Song dynasty official, Li Mao-ying, who obtained his Chin-Shi degree in 1226”. Chin-Shi, or jinshi in today’s pinyin, was the highest rank a ...

The Society for Song, Yuan, and Conquest Dynasty Studies is an international society committed to the encouragement of the study of Chinese—as well as Jürchen, Khitan, Tangut, and Mongol—history, ...

The launching ceremony of the 2024 Dongpo Cultural Month and the "Singing for the Motherland" chorus performance was held in ...

Digital reconstruction of treasure trove found in 800-year-old tomb reveals forward-thinking fashion of the day, according to ...

The imperial tombs of the Northern Song Dynasty (960-1127), the Song Mausoleums, are in western Gongxian County, Henan Province. Except for Emperor Hui Zong, named Zhao Ji (1082-1135), and Qin ...

During the Yuan Dynasty (1271-1368), Mongols elevated yurt-making to unprecedented heights, as recounted by Southern Song ...

The Bronze Bell of the Northern Song Dynasty is the oldest original Buddhist bell collected by the museum. It dates back to the 10th year of the reign of Xining of the Northern Song Dynasty (1077).