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Edward Schafer
Books by Edward Schafer
The Vermilion Bird
T'ang Images of the South
In the
Empire of Min
A South China Kingdom of the Tenth Century
The period between the fall of the Tang dynasty in 907 and the establishment of the Song in 960 has not been treated kindly by historians. Called the period of Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms, after the five successive but short-lived dynasties of the north and ten dominant smaller kingdoms in th...