ASIAN 101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Terracotta Army, Mao Zedong, Patrilocal Residence
ASIAN 101 – DAOISM, CHINA & TAIWAN
Daoism
• Sage: Laozi
• 6th Century (BCE)
• Dao De Jing
• The Dao
o Translated as “the way”
o Spontaneous process regulating all beings (its everywhere)
▪ In the human body
▪ In society
▪ In nature
▪ In universe
o Want to be more in touch with this essence that pervades everything
o The Dao = Unmanifest
• The Dao begot one, the one begot two, the two begot three, the three
begot the ten thousand things
o All of the things that exist and can talk about in the world
o The Dao is the source of The Ten Thousand things
o The ten thousand things = manifest
o We live in the realm of the ten thousand things
• Goals
o To return to the Dao (go backwards on the “begot” path)
o Thought to be becoming immortal if going through this path
o Dangerous to completely live in the realm of ten thousand things and
forget The Dao
• Hundun = Chaos
o In this state, there are no distinctions or differentiations
o Chaotic because of a lack of organization (organization =
classification and division)
o Not negative
o Image of the uncarved block
▪ Thinking about making a sculpture? Limitless forms. As soon
as you chip it, then there is a restricted from
• Confucianism vs. Daoism
o Hierarchy and differentiation // return to undiff. State
o Relationship ruler+people // relationship indiv.+Dao
• Chinese History
o Qin Dynasty (221-206 BCE)
▪ First Emperor: Qin Shi Huang
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