A Portrait of Five Dynasties China: From the Memoirs of Wang Renyu (880-956)

摘要

Some books seem misplaced in time: of these some are late, some are far ahead of their time, and yet others are timeless. This book by a pundit of Chinese literature and Sinologist in the best sense of that word, Glen Dudbridge of Oxford, falls into the last category. A Portrait of Five Dynasties China takes its reader into the Lebenswelt (live world) of Wang Renyu 王仁裕 (880-956), a scholar-official who lived through one of China's most turbulent eras, the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms 五代十國 (907-960).