Power Structure and Cultural Identity: Civil-military Relations During the Tang and Song Dynasties (875-1063) (nine-colored Deer Series)

About This Novel

This book begins by describing the growth and decline of the political power of civil and military officials from the late Tang Dynasty to the mid-Northern Song Dynasty, and analyzes the factors that led to the transformation of cultural identity between the two sides from vagueness to serious opposition. The struggle for power is the main cause of tension between civil and military officials. In order to win the attention of the monarch, scribes described warriors as greedy and ignorant, and emphasized the importance of being educated and moral. As the power of civil servants gradually expanded from the Later Zhou Dynasty to the Northern Song Dynasty, scribes' discrimination against military officers became increasingly deepened, and through institutional norms, they prevented the change of status between civil and military officers. The opposition between civil servants and military officers thus became an unsolvable political problem in the Song Dynasty.

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