清流文化与唐帝国

Literocracy and Empire: A Study of Political Culture of The Tang Dynasty by Lu Yang is composed of many relevant but independent theses. The book combines many ways such as psychological history, culture history and system history to survey the politics and culture from the late years of Tang Dynasty to Five Dynasties and based on the imperial politics and literocracy, the book strives to provide a new cognitive pattern for the transformation of Five Dynasties. The book emphasizes on understanding the literocracy and its monopoly and self-continuity of the representative groups in the society of Five Dynasties from the perspectives of the particular political attitude and cultural imaginary of Tang Dynasty in order to seize multiple invisible strength that facilitate it and explain how the two layers of new political cultures interact and produce new political pattern. At the same time, it prompts the idea of political culture with increasingly significant influences and satirically weakens the strength of existence of Tang Dynasty.