IAH 204 Lecture 1: 1
24 Oct 2017
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Tensions btw the political center (the zhou) court & regional lords: Constant warfare & widespread desires for peace and order. This violent era of competition btw the domains was one of the most intellectually creative in. Definition: a written sign of a single syllable that represents the idea of an object rather than the sound of the speech as exemplified in the phonetic language. It is an anthology of 305 ancient poems: The collection has been in circulation since the 6th century bc. It was used as a cultural encyclopedia across the social divide btw the high and low e. g. , text, manual, courtship. Style: straightforward in immediate imagery & musical nature. The scholarly versions is the translation by bernhard kalgreen. Lovely is the good girl whom a gentleman desires. Confucian scholars interpret the bird as a symbol for the royal king in political allegories. Regulate the world/relationship with the virtue of the queen consort.
