Elegies for Empire Picture storybooks Peter Fryer reveals how the

Peter Fryer reveals how the ideology of racism was used as justification for acquiring and expanding the Empire

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Elegies for Empire Picture storybooks Peter Fryer reveals how theFacing a transformed socio political landscape after the An Lushan Rebellion (756763), Tang dynasty elites questioned inherited understandings of tradition and anxiously reflected on their relations to both recent and ancient pasts. Du Fu (712770), widely considered China's greatest poet, presciently addressed these concerns in his late work on memory and the means by which the past survives. In Elegies for Empire, Gregory Patterson maps out a poetics