The Song dynasty was an era of remarkable technological and commercial innovation — gunpowder weapons, movable type, the compass — despite constant military pressure from northern steppe empires that eventually halved its territory.
The Song dynasty ended in 1279 CE when the Mongol Yuan dynasty defeated the last Song loyalist fleet at the Battle of Yamen, ending Song resistance and completing the Mongol conquest of China.
The atlas holds 2 border frames for Song Dynasty — the shape you scrub through changes in 960 · 1127.
Mote's treatment of the Song covers its technological brilliance and the geopolitical pressures from Liao, Jin, and Mongols.
Authoritative political history of the Song polity from the fall of Tang to the Mongol conquest, covering its commercial and technological flourishing under northern pressure.
The 108 outlaws of Mount Liang in the late Northern Song.
A one-volume history of the Song, north and south, in the Harvard History of Imperial China series.