Journal of Asian and African Studies, December 1st, 1996
Premodern Chinese history is so lengthy that even specialists sometimes have difficulty familiarizing themselves with more than a few selected episodes, or dynasties. Much is inevitably neglected in the process, including various transitional dynasties that, arguably, were more pivotal to China's historical development than the big stable ones. Whether the Chin (Jin, or "Golden," 1115-1234) dynasty was such a pivotal era remains to be demonstrated, but it certainly has been all too commonly dismissed as ephemeral, and alien; and it does raise some highly provocative questions about the nature ...
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