Denis Twitchett

Dados Biográficos

ID467654
NOMEDenis Twitchett
PRENOMESDenis
SOBRENOMETwitchett
ASSINATURATWITCHETT D
AFILIAÇÕESPrinceton University
VERIFICADONão
TOTAL DE OBRAS59
TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES20
TOTAL COMO AUTOR54
TOTAL COMO EDITOR5
PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO1955
ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO2015
ÍNDICE H3

  • The Cambridge History of China

    Open AccessDenis Crispin Twitchett, John W Chaffee et al.BOOKCambridge History of China2015

    This is the second of two volumes on the Sung Dynasty, which together provide a comprehensive history of China from the fall of the T'ang Dynasty in 907 to the Mongol conquest of the Southern Sung in 1279. With contributions from leading historians in the field, Volume 5, Part Two paints a complex portrait of a dynasty beset by problems and contradictions, but one which, despite its military and geopolitical weakness, was nevertheless economicall…

  • The Cambridge History of China

    Open AccessDenis Crispin Twitchett, John W Chaffee et al.BOOKThe Cambridge History of China2009

    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…

  • The Cambridge History of China

    Open AccessDenis Twitchett, Frederick W Mote et al.BOOKThe Cambridge history of China1998

    Volumes seven and eight of The Cambridge History of China are devoted to the Ming dynasty (1368–1644), the only segment of later imperial history during which all of China proper was ruled by a native, or Han, dynasty. These volumes provide the largest and most detailed account of the Ming period in any language. Summarising all modern research, volume eight offers detailed studies of governmental structure, the fiscal and legal systems, internat…

  • The Cambridge History of China, Volume 6

    Nicola Di Cosmo, Herbert Franke et al.ARTICLEHarvard Journal of Asiatic Studies1996Citada por: 1

  • Chinese Studies in Britain

    Open AccessDenis TwitchettARTICLEJournal of the Royal Asiatic…1995

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  • The Liao

    Open AccessDenis Twitchett, Klaus-Peter TietzeCHAPTERThe Cambridge history of China.1994

    The founding of the Liao dynasty at the beginning of the tenth century opened a second period of extensive foreign dominance in China. The name of the Khitan, the founders of the Liao dynasty, became a synonym for China. In 906 or 907 when the last Yao-lien khaghan, Hen-te-chin or Ch'in-te, was deposed because of his ineffectual leadership, the leaders of the eight tribes elected in his place the commander in chief of the confederation's forces, …

  • The Writing of Official History under the T'ang

    Suzanne E Cahill, Denis TwitchettARTICLEChinese Literature Essays…1994

    Preface Conventions List of abbreviations Part I. The Bureaucratic Apparatus: 1. Introduction 2. The bureaucratic apparatus Part II. The Compilation of the Historical Record: 3. Introduction 4. The court diaries (Ch'i-chii chu) 5. The inner palace diaries (Nei Ch'i-chii chu) 6. The record of administrative affairs (Shih-cheng chi) 7. The daily calandar (Jih-li) 8. Biographies 9. Histories of institutions, historical encyclopedias, and collections…

  • The Cambridge History of China

    Open AccessDenis Twitchett, Ruth Dunnel et al.BOOKThe Cambridge history of China.1994

    This volume deals with four non-Chinese regimes: the Khitan dynasty of Liao; the Tangut state of Hsi Hsia; the Jurchen empire of Chin; and the Mongolian Yuan dynasty that eventually engulfed the whole of China. It investigates the historical background from which these regimes emerged and shows how each in its own way set up viable institutions for the control of a multi-racial, multi-lingual, and multi-cultural population. It discusses these pro…

  • The Cambridge History of China

    Keith Forster, Denis Twitchett et al.ARTICLEPacific Affairs1993

  • The Writing of Official History under the T'ang

    Open AccessDenis TwitchettBOOKWriting of Official History under…1992

    This book describes how the Chinese government, between about 620 and 850, developed an official organization designed to select, process, and edit material for inclusion in official historical works eventually to be incorporated in an official history of the dynasty. The first part gives a detailed account of the establishment of the official apparatus designed to produce a record of the T'ang dynasty, which would remain standard for more than a…

  • The Cambridge History of China. Vol. 7, The Ming Dynasty, 1368-1644, Part I

    Romeyn Taylor, Frederick W Mote et al.ARTICLEHarvard Journal of Asiatic Studies1991

  • The Cambridge History of China. Volume 7, The Ming Dynasty, 1368-1644.

    Edward L Farmer, Frederick W Mote et al.ARTICLEThe American Historical Review1990

  • The Cambridge History of Japan

    Open AccessDenis Twitchett, John Whitney Hall et al.BOOKThe Cambridge History of Japan,…1990

    This third volume of The Cambridge History of Japan is devoted to the three and a half centuries spanning the final decades of the twelfth century when the Kamakura bakufu was founded to the mid-sixteenth century when civil wars raged following the demise of the Muromachi bakufu. The volume creates a rich tapestry of the events that took place during these colourful centuries, when the warrior class ruled Japan, institutions underwent fundamental…

  • The Cambridge History of China, Volume 7

    John Darde, John W Dardess et al.ARTICLEJournal of the American Oriental…1990

  • The Cambridge History of Japan

    Open AccessDenis Twitchett, John Whitney Hall et al.BOOKThe Cambridge History of Japan,…1989

    Volume 5 of The Cambridge History of Japan provides the most comprehensive account available in any Western language of Japan's transformation from a feudal society to a modern nation state. It traces the roots and course of political, social, and institutional change that took place in Japan from late Tokugawa times to the early twentieth century. During this period Japan, under pressure from the intrusive West, abandoned its policy of national …

  • The Cambridge History of China. Volume 7

    Pierre-Étienne Will, Frederick W Mote et al.ARTICLEPacific Affairs1989Citada por: 1

  • The Cheng-t'ung, Ching-t'ai, and T'len-shun reigns, 1436–1464

    Open AccessDenis Twitchett, Tilemann GrimmCHAPTERThe Cambridge history of China1988

    The death of the Hsüan-te emperor at the early age of thirty-seven sui in January 1435 and his succession by a boy emperor Chu Ch'i-chen (posthumous title Ying-tsung, 1427–64) only eight years old brought into the open many problems implicit in the political institutions established in early Ming. Although the succession was a perfectly regular one and Chu Ch'i-chen, the elder of the Hsüan-te emperor's two sons, had been designated heir apparent,…

  • The Cambridge History of China

    Open AccessDenis Crispin Twitchett, John King Fairbank et al.BOOKThe Cambridge history of China1988

    This volume in The Cambridge History of China is devoted to the history of the Ming dynasty (1368–1644), with some account of the three decades before the dynasty's formal establishment, and for the Ming courts that survived in South China for a generation after 1644. Volume 7 deals primarily with the political developments of the period, but it also incorporates background in social, economic, and cultural history where this is relevant to the c…

  • The Cambridge History of China, Volume 1

    Cho-Yun Hsu, Denis Twitchett et al.ARTICLEHarvard Journal of Asiatic Studies1988

  • The Cambridge History of China. Volume I

    Rafe De Crespigny, Denis Twitchett et al.ARTICLEPacific Affairs1988Citada por: 1

  • The Cambridge History of China. Volume One

    Chauncey S Goodrich, Denis Twitchett et al.ARTICLEJournal of the American Oriental…1988

  • The Cambridge History of China

    Open AccessDenis Crispin Twitchett, John W Chaffee et al.BOOKThe Cambridge History of China1986

    This volume begins the historical coverage of The Cambridge History of China with the establishment of the Ch'in empire in 221 BC and ends with the abdication of the last Han emperor in AD 220. Spanning four centuries, this period witnessed major evolutionary changes in almost every aspect of China's development, being particularly notable for the emergence and growth of a centralized administration and imperial government. Leading historians fro…

  • The Cambridge History of China

    Open AccessDenis Crispin Twitchett, John King Fairbank et al.BOOKThe Cambridge History of China1983

    This is the first of two volumes of this authoritative Cambridge history which review the Republican period, between the demise of imperial China and the establishment of the People's Republic. These years from 1912 to 1949 were marked by civil war, revolution and invasion; but also by change and growth in the economic, social, intellectual and cultural spheres. The chapters examine economic trends in the period and the rise of the new middle cla…

  • The Cambridge History of China. Volume 3, Sui and T'ang China, 589-906

    Brian E Mcknight, Denis TwitchettARTICLEThe American Historical Review1982

  • "The Cambridge History of China, Volume 3, "Sui and T'ang China, 589-906, Part I

    E G Pulleyblank, Denis TwitchettARTICLEHarvard Journal of Asiatic Studies1981