MMW 11 Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: Analects, Filial Piety, Junzi

• School: UCSD
• Department: Making of the Modern World
• Course: MMW 11
• Professor: Matthew Herbst

Document Summary

All dialects speak differently but read and write using the same system. Vassals of the shang that rose up and took power. 5 ranks of lords that govern on behalf of the king (rule regions and are related to the king somehow) To prove loyalty, vassals have to participate in rituals and provide soldiers. Spring and autumn annals (8th-5th c. bc) This period of zhou history is called the spring and autumn period. Bao si captures the heart of king you, who was already married. King you puts aside his queen for bao si. Bao si"s father and family get angry and start to consider rebellion and then bring the troops after the king asks for something to make bao si happy. This rebellion moves the capital east (starts the eastern zhou period after the western zhou period) The vassals are up in arms and actually have power. Vassals recruit bureaucrats (shi) to help them organize their states,