China

Period of division

W.J.F. Jenner, Memories of Loyang (1981), is a political history of the Wei dynasty during the Six Dynasties period. Discussions on religious development during the period include Holmes Welch, Taoism: The Parting of the Way, rev. ed. (1965); and Erik Zürcher, The Buddhist Conquest of China, 3rd ed. (2007), a study of the formation of gentry Buddhism.