China in World History

2 China in World History northeast down the coast all the way to today’s Vietnam. The Longshan people made beautiful tools and c ...

The Formative Age 3 a malaria epidemic in 1899, drugstores in and around Beijing did a lively business selling “dragon bones,” b ...

4 China in World History X X X X X XAnyang Qufu Zhengzhou Wall of Wei ZHONGSHAN YUE DIAN QIANG RONG XIONGNU SHU QIN ZHONGSHAN SO ...

The Formative Age 5 daggers and spears, and horse harness fi ttings, but the most common early bronze objects were sacrifi cial ...

6 China in World History the twentieth century, Lady Hao’s tomb, though smaller than many, was discovered completely intact in 1 ...

The Formative Age 7 with bronze sacrifi cial vessels, and kings were accompanied in death by their servants, slaves, mistresses, ...

8 China in World History written Chinese, rooted in the Shang dynasty, has been a powerful uni- fying force throughout the long ...

The Formative Age 9 up to six feet tall) with round eyes, large noses, light skin, and light (including blond and red) hair date ...

10 China in World History Mandate of Heaven, and he acted only in the interests of King Wu and his son, and never tried to seize ...

The Formative Age 11 While most of our documentation from the Zhou refl ects the life of the elite, some poetry in the Book of S ...

12 China in World History more lethal weapons, and eventually (by the third century bce) rul- ers began drafting thousands of ab ...

The Formative Age 13 eras in all of Chinese history, commonly known as the period of the Hundred Schools of Thought. By far the ...

14 China in World History positions learn how to behave from those above them. Thus, the most important quality for a king to ha ...

The Formative Age 15 Heaven. Xunzi understood how much the state was changing in his own time, and he embraced the development o ...

16 China in World History the School of the Dao. Dao (Tao in some translations) means literally the Way, and it was used by Conf ...

The Formative Age 17 or harder than rock, the author notes, but over time water erodes and triumphs over rock. A second Daoist w ...

18 China in World History irrelevant to the needs of the present. Human nature is evil, he declared with confi dence, and the on ...

The Formative Age 19 Legalists accepted the importance of rituals to legitimize state power. The Daoists, who satirized power-se ...

T he Qin, like the Zhou before it, grew powerful on the West- ern fringe of what was then considered the developed world. Wherea ...

The First Empires 21 economic resources in the great task of conquering and pacifying all of the Warring States. The men most re ...