BIOL 2021 Chapter Notes - Chapter 2.5: Cultural Revolution, Shang Dynasty, Qin Dynasty
2 Apr 2018
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Chinese history review: shang dynasty is earliest, zhou dynasty. Confucian scholars suppress, books burned: han dynasty. Confucian classics used as training for government officials: tan dynasty, song dynasty, ming dynasty, qi(cid:374)g (cid:894)ch"i(cid:374)g(cid:895) dy(cid:374)asty. Laster imperial dynasty: republic of china, peoples republic of china. Communist mainland china: republic of china, the great leap forward, the cultural revolution or great proletarian cultural revolution. Chinese religion: 4 different religious traditions that mutually influence each other, confucianism, daoism, chinese buddhism, popular/ folk religion; ancestor worship. Overview: the sanjiao are three (san) philisophies or regligions (jiao) Hundreds schools of ancient in philosophy: heaven: an impersonal symbol of universal order, two primary forces: yang (good, light, male, sun) & yin (bad, dark, female, moon) Both are complementary: i ching or book of changes: divination manual. Confucian beginnings: kongzi is re(cid:448)ered as first of chi(cid:374)a"s three fore(cid:373)ost classical philosophers.
