EAST 211 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Yin And Yang, Filial Piety, Analects

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5000 years of chinese history: three cultural heroes and five sage kings: where chinese people believe their culure originated from, archaelogy: shang dynasty. Definition of myth: not accessing the truth of the myth, but interested in what it can tell us about the culture. History: fact vs. fiction: n frye: when we start telling a story we start a myth. Early chinese conception of history: father - son - to next elder son: become less and less virtuous and the heaven decide to find a more virtuous ruler, leads to fall of one dynasty. Three cultural heroes and 5 sage kings (cid:8344) : fuxi nuwa: first men and women, considered together, distinct heroes. Interesting relationship: brother and sister, husband and wife. Emerging from natural context: eigth trigram: fuxi observe the pattern of nature and instruct people, nuwa: first female to teach feminine arts, women"s roles.

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