Paul Jakov Smith
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 4795102 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Paul Jakov Smith |
| NOMBRES | Paul Jakov |
| APELLIDO | Smith |
| FIRMA | SMITH P J |
| AFILIACIONES | Haverford College |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-5295-6272 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 17 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 3 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 14 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 5 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1970 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2025 |
| ÍNDICE H | 1 |
The Fragility of Peace
The Chanyuan Covenant of 1005 that ended decades of war between Song and Liao precipitated a new political model that, from the Song perspective, exchanged wealth, territory, and dynastic pride in return for peace along the northern frontier, civilian sovereignty over a long-dominant military class, and the replacement of a culture of arms with the love of books. That “Chanyuan Paradigm” survived the Qingli war of 1040–1044 with the Tangut Xi Xia…
The Way of the Barbarians
The Origins of the Chinese Nation
Reviewed by: The Origins of the Chinese Nation: Song China and the Forging of an East Asian World Order by Nicolas Tackett Paul Jakov Smith Nicolas Tackett. The Origins of the Chinese Nation: Song China and the Forging of an East Asian World Order. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2017. Pp. 328. $34.99 (paper). ISBN 978-1-316-64748-6. As I remember it, one of the big issues addressed at the closing plenary session of the 2014 Internatio…
State Power in China, 900-1325
This collection provides new ways to understand how state power was exercised during the overlapping Liao, Song, Jin, and Yuan dynasties. Through a set of case studies, State Power in China, 900-1325 examines large questions concerning dynastic legitimacy, factional strife, the relationship between the literati and the state, and the value of centralization. How was state power exercised? Why did factional strife periodically become ferocious? Wh…
A Crisis in the Literati State
A Crisis in the Literati StateThe Sino-Tangut War and the Qingli-Era Reforms of Fan Zhongyan, 1040–1045 Paul Jakov Smith In the first lunar month of 1040 the Tangut Xi Xia ruler Weiming Yuanhao (嵬名元昊, r. 1032–1048) launched a devastating attack on the frontier prefecture of Yanzhou that plunged the Song realm into its first protracted war in almost four decades. Three years later the political activist and war hero Fan Zhongyan 范仲淹 (989–1052) was…
Bored in Heaven
Harmony and War
Reviewed by: Harmony and War: Confucian Culture and Chinese Power Politics by Yuan-kang Wang Paul Jakov Smith Yuan-kang Wang . Harmony and War: Confucian Culture and Chinese Power Politics. New York: Columbia University Press, 2011. Pp. xvi + 310. $50.00 (cloth). ISBN 978-0231151405. The proliferation of books, theses, articles, conference presentations, and study groups on the military in China all demonstrate that war has finally become a mains…
Shen-tsung’s Reign and the New Policies of Wang An-shih, 1067–1085
In 1067 the nineteen-year-old Chao Hsü (1048–85) ascended the throne with an acute sense of shame for his country's foreign humiliations and a fierce ambition to redress the crises that beset his empire. The young Shen-tsung emperor and his ministers had many reasons to feel uncertain, for the death of his father, Ying-tsung (r. 1063–7), after only three and a half years on the throne could be taken only as a bad omen. But the sense of crisis tha…
The Cambridge History of China
This first of two volumes on the Sung Dynasty (960–1279) and its Five Dynasties and Southern Kingdoms precursors presents the political history of China from the fall of the T'ang Dynasty in 907 to the Mongol conquest of the Southern Sung in 1279. Its twelve chapters survey the personalities and events that marked the rise, consolidation, and demise of the Sung polity during an era of profound social, economic, and intellectual ferment. The autho…
Eurasian Transformations of the Tenth to Thirteenth Centuries
This essay addresses the nature of the medieval transformation of Eurasia from the perspective of China during the Song dynasty (960-1279). Out of the many facets of the wholesale metamorphosis of Chinese society that characterized this era, I focus on the development of an increasingly bureaucratic and autocratic state, the emergence of a semi-autonomous local elite, and the impact on both trends of the rise of the great steppe empires that enci…
Eurasian Transformations of the Tenth To Thirteenth Centuries
The Song-Yuan-Ming Transition in Chinese History
The Song-Yuan-Ming Transition in Chinese History
This volume seeks to study the connections between two well-studied epochs in Chinese history: the mid-imperial era of the Tang and Song era (ca.800-1270) and the late imperial era of the late Ming and Qing (1550-1900). Both eras are seen as periods of explosive change, particularly in economic activity, characterized by the emergence of new forms of social organization and a dramatic expansion in knowledge and culture. The task of establishing l…
The Song-Yuan-Ming Transition in Chinese History
Imperial China 900-1800
Fear of Gynarchy in an Age of Chaos
Over the long term, the Mongol conquest of the Southern Song in 1276 was less destructive to members of the local South Chinese elite than was the failure of the Yuan regime to establish strong and durable institutions of dynastic rule. For not long after the elite survivors of the Sino-Mongol wars had returned to a comfortable prosperity under Yuan rule, their children were buffetted by the instability and civil wars that engulfed Yuan society f…
Taxing Heaven's Storehouse
Part 1: Linking tea and horses - geopolitics and horse supply during the Northern Song - horses and defense, geography and horse supply, the frontier marketing system, reshaping horse procurement market segregation and the structure of the Sichuanese tea industry on the eve of the tea and horse trade - Sichuan and the dissemination of tea culture, the structure of the Sichuanese tea industry on the eve of the tea monopoly bureacracy, social mobil…
Commerce, Agriculture, and Core Formation in the Upper Yangzi, 2 A.D. to 1948
Vol. 9, No. 1 Late Imperial ChinaJune 1988 COMMERCE, AGRICULTURE, AND CORE FORMATION IN THE UPPER YANGZI, 2 A.D. TO 1948* Paul J. Smith Introduction The story of the disasters that punctuated Sichuan's long climb to pride of place as China's most populous province is well known. As shown in Figure 1 , the forty years that Mongol armies battered at Sichuan's defenses before breaking through to topple the Southern Song in 1279 decimated the provinc…
Matthew Arnold and the Education of the New Order
A Crisis in the Literati State
A Crisis in the Literati StateThe Sino-Tangut War and the Qingli-Era Reforms of Fan Zhongyan, 1040–1045 Paul Jakov Smith In the first lunar month of 1040 the Tangut Xi Xia ruler Weiming Yuanhao (嵬名元昊, r. 1032–1048) launched a devastating attack on the frontier prefecture of Yanzhou that plunged the Song realm into its first protracted war in almost four decades. Three years later the political activist and war hero Fan Zhongyan 范仲淹 (989–1052) was…
Matthew Arnold and the Education of the New Order
Commerce, Agriculture, and Core Formation in the Upper Yangzi, 2 A.D. to 1948
Vol. 9, No. 1 Late Imperial ChinaJune 1988 COMMERCE, AGRICULTURE, AND CORE FORMATION IN THE UPPER YANGZI, 2 A.D. TO 1948* Paul J. Smith Introduction The story of the disasters that punctuated Sichuan's long climb to pride of place as China's most populous province is well known. As shown in Figure 1 , the forty years that Mongol armies battered at Sichuan's defenses before breaking through to topple the Southern Song in 1279 decimated the provinc…
Taxing Heaven's Storehouse
Part 1: Linking tea and horses - geopolitics and horse supply during the Northern Song - horses and defense, geography and horse supply, the frontier marketing system, reshaping horse procurement market segregation and the structure of the Sichuanese tea industry on the eve of the tea and horse trade - Sichuan and the dissemination of tea culture, the structure of the Sichuanese tea industry on the eve of the tea monopoly bureacracy, social mobil…
Fear of Gynarchy in an Age of Chaos
Over the long term, the Mongol conquest of the Southern Song in 1276 was less destructive to members of the local South Chinese elite than was the failure of the Yuan regime to establish strong and durable institutions of dynastic rule. For not long after the elite survivors of the Sino-Mongol wars had returned to a comfortable prosperity under Yuan rule, their children were buffetted by the instability and civil wars that engulfed Yuan society f…
Imperial China 900-1800
The Song-Yuan-Ming Transition in Chinese History
The Song-Yuan-Ming Transition in Chinese History
This volume seeks to study the connections between two well-studied epochs in Chinese history: the mid-imperial era of the Tang and Song era (ca.800-1270) and the late imperial era of the late Ming and Qing (1550-1900). Both eras are seen as periods of explosive change, particularly in economic activity, characterized by the emergence of new forms of social organization and a dramatic expansion in knowledge and culture. The task of establishing l…
The Song-Yuan-Ming Transition in Chinese History
Eurasian Transformations of the Tenth to Thirteenth Centuries
This essay addresses the nature of the medieval transformation of Eurasia from the perspective of China during the Song dynasty (960-1279). Out of the many facets of the wholesale metamorphosis of Chinese society that characterized this era, I focus on the development of an increasingly bureaucratic and autocratic state, the emergence of a semi-autonomous local elite, and the impact on both trends of the rise of the great steppe empires that enci…
Eurasian Transformations of the Tenth To Thirteenth Centuries
Shen-tsung’s Reign and the New Policies of Wang An-shih, 1067–1085
In 1067 the nineteen-year-old Chao Hsü (1048–85) ascended the throne with an acute sense of shame for his country's foreign humiliations and a fierce ambition to redress the crises that beset his empire. The young Shen-tsung emperor and his ministers had many reasons to feel uncertain, for the death of his father, Ying-tsung (r. 1063–7), after only three and a half years on the throne could be taken only as a bad omen. But the sense of crisis tha…
The Cambridge History of China
This first of two volumes on the Sung Dynasty (960–1279) and its Five Dynasties and Southern Kingdoms precursors presents the political history of China from the fall of the T'ang Dynasty in 907 to the Mongol conquest of the Southern Sung in 1279. Its twelve chapters survey the personalities and events that marked the rise, consolidation, and demise of the Sung polity during an era of profound social, economic, and intellectual ferment. The autho…
Harmony and War
Reviewed by: Harmony and War: Confucian Culture and Chinese Power Politics by Yuan-kang Wang Paul Jakov Smith Yuan-kang Wang . Harmony and War: Confucian Culture and Chinese Power Politics. New York: Columbia University Press, 2011. Pp. xvi + 310. $50.00 (cloth). ISBN 978-0231151405. The proliferation of books, theses, articles, conference presentations, and study groups on the military in China all demonstrate that war has finally become a mains…
Bored in Heaven
A Crisis in the Literati State
A Crisis in the Literati StateThe Sino-Tangut War and the Qingli-Era Reforms of Fan Zhongyan, 1040–1045 Paul Jakov Smith In the first lunar month of 1040 the Tangut Xi Xia ruler Weiming Yuanhao (嵬名元昊, r. 1032–1048) launched a devastating attack on the frontier prefecture of Yanzhou that plunged the Song realm into its first protracted war in almost four decades. Three years later the political activist and war hero Fan Zhongyan 范仲淹 (989–1052) was…
State Power in China, 900-1325
This collection provides new ways to understand how state power was exercised during the overlapping Liao, Song, Jin, and Yuan dynasties. Through a set of case studies, State Power in China, 900-1325 examines large questions concerning dynastic legitimacy, factional strife, the relationship between the literati and the state, and the value of centralization. How was state power exercised? Why did factional strife periodically become ferocious? Wh…
The Origins of the Chinese Nation
Reviewed by: The Origins of the Chinese Nation: Song China and the Forging of an East Asian World Order by Nicolas Tackett Paul Jakov Smith Nicolas Tackett. The Origins of the Chinese Nation: Song China and the Forging of an East Asian World Order. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2017. Pp. 328. $34.99 (paper). ISBN 978-1-316-64748-6. As I remember it, one of the big issues addressed at the closing plenary session of the 2014 Internatio…
The Way of the Barbarians
The Fragility of Peace
The Chanyuan Covenant of 1005 that ended decades of war between Song and Liao precipitated a new political model that, from the Song perspective, exchanged wealth, territory, and dynastic pride in return for peace along the northern frontier, civilian sovereignty over a long-dominant military class, and the replacement of a culture of arms with the love of books. That “Chanyuan Paradigm” survived the Qingli war of 1040–1044 with the Tangut Xi Xia…
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