Tang Changru's Writings: Chinese Academic Series

Author: Tang Changru
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Publish Date: 2006-12-01
Features: Tang Changru (1911-1994) was a renowned historian and, during his lifetime, served as a professor, department head, and director of the Institute of the Three to Ninth Centuries at Wuhan University, as well as a researcher at the Institute of History of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and director of the Ancient Manuscript Research Office of the National Cultural Bureau. Professor Tang published numerous academic works, including Essays on the History of the Northern and Southern Dynasties and the Wei, Jin, and Southern and Northern Dynasties, Continued Essays on the History of the Northern and Southern Dynasties and the Wei, Jin, and Southern and Northern Dynasties, The Development of Large-Scale Land Ownership in Jiangnan from the Third to the Ninth Centuries, Annotations to the Military Records of the Tang Shu, Collected Essays on the History of the Northern and Southern Dynasties and the Wei, Jin, and Southern and Northern Dynasties, Manuscripts from Mountain Residences, and Three Essays on the History of the Northern and Southern Dynasties, the Wei, Jin, and Tang Dynasties. This book is a selected collection of Professor Tang's essays, primarily including his representative works. Many of these essays contain groundbreaking and highly significant arguments, offering substantial reference value for historical research.
Tang Changru (1911-1994) was a renowned historian and, during his lifetime, served as a professor, department head, and director of the Institute of the Three to Ninth Centuries at Wuhan University, as well as a researcher at the Institute of History of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and director of the Ancient Manuscript Research Office of the National Cultural Bureau. Professor Tang published numerous academic works, including Essays on the History of the Northern and Southern Dynasties and the Wei, Jin, and Southern and Northern Dynasties, Continued Essays on the History of the Northern and Southern Dynasties and the Wei, Jin, and Southern and Northern Dynasties, The Development of Large-Scale Land Ownership in Jiangnan from the Third to the Ninth Centuries, Annotations to the Military Records of the Tang Shu, Collected Essays on the History of the Northern and Southern Dynasties and the Wei, Jin, and Southern and Northern Dynasties, Manuscripts from Mountain Residences, and Three Essays on the History of the Northern and Southern Dynasties, the Wei, Jin, and Tang Dynasties.
With the support of Shanghai, we plan to publish this selected collection of Professor Tang's essays. His academic work is truly comprehensive, spanning multiple fields. Broadly speaking, it includes the history of the Northern and Southern Dynasties, the Wei, Jin, and Tang Dynasties, the Liao, Jin, and Yuan Dynasties, as well as Dunhuang and Turpan documents. The issues he studied ranged from political, economic, and military systems to ethnic, class, and social strata, as well as Confucianism and Daoism, Buddhism and Taoism.
We have carefully selected 42 representative essays (13 of which are unpublished) for this collection to share with all of you. This book is a selected collection of Professor Tang's essays, primarily including his representative works. Many of these essays contain groundbreaking and highly significant arguments, offering substantial reference value for historical research.