The Demise of the Powerful Families in Medieval China

About This Novel

This is a classic about the social changes in medieval China. It relies on the statistics and research of massive epitaph data to re-outline another aspect of the collapse of the Tang Empire. It reveals that under the social, economic and institutional changes of the seventh and eighth centuries, the Tang Dynasty's powerful families were more successful than we previously thought. Only during the thirty years of great turmoil that followed Huang Chao's capture of Chang'an in 880 did their political influence collapse due to widespread physical extermination.

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