GLST 392 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Upper Class
29 Sep 2016
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No singular religion: confucianism against temples soaring to heaven 3. Science practical work not imaginative theorizing: calculated motion of planets 1500 years before copernicusb. Medicine anatomical research proper hygiene for longer life: economy and societya. Class social status passed from one generation to the next: upper class literate, wealth, culture denied peasantsa. Mandarins educated bureaucrats + landowning aristocracy: land owners 2%, peasantry the rest, mean people lowest status like india"s untouchables 3. Luxury items silk, jewelry, leather goods, furniture silk. Merchants not highly important confucius prioritized learning/political service: technological advance practical usage remained agricultural 1. Production methods advanced water powered mills: paper invented needed for bureaucracy d. family life father unquestioned leader, there are no wrongdoing parents a. law courts don"t punish parents, strict control of emotionsa. Home training ground for personality: women gained power through sons/mother-in-laws to women brought in 4. How chinese civilization fits together chinese wholeness not a divided society.
