HIS280Y1 Chapter 4: Axial age
Document Summary
In the old world, in the warring age, a lot of thinkers come out. That kind of text has a lot of contradictions. Layered texts is kind of like playing telephone. Layered texts cant be traced to one author and received after being passed from hand to hand. No matter how hard you try not to change it, it becomes warped. The warring states: starts around 475. Need taxes to help army: coinage, taxes become more and more important, around 8 states left, warring states become less and less. Intellectual and cultural reactions to instability: a music video from 400 bce, music a central status symbol- a display of authority around 470. Bce: music shows king"s wealth and power, poetry and painting, book of odes, chu ci, li sao, qu yuan, chu3 ci2 17 different sections and a lengthy text, qu1 yuan2 composes a poem basially a of his misery. He was exiled from the court of qu3.
