| Description |
xi, 356 pages ; 23 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
1. THE FORMATIVE PERIOD: Cultural heroes / Anonymous -- Good emperors / Ssu-ma Chʼien -- In the seventh month / Anonymous -- Prince Chʼung-erh / Tso Chʼiu-ming -- Feng Hsüan / Anonymous -- Ching Kʼo the Assassin / Ssu-ma Chʼien -- 2. THE PHILOSOPHERS. A gentleman's code / Confucius -- Autumn flood / Chuang Chou -- Universal love / Mo Ti -- A private complaint / Han Fei -- 3. THE GRAND UNIFICATIONS. The evil of the Chʼin / Chia Yi -- The advisability of dividing large feudatories into small ones / Chu-fu Yen -- The harmony between heaven and man / Tung Chung-shu -- The plight of the peasantry / Tung Chung-shu -- The market stabilization program / Pan Ku -- The seven feminine virtues / Pan Chao -- 4. DISINTEGRATION AND AMALGAMATION. I have no ambition for myself / Tsʼao Tsʼao -- Barbarian chieftain and sinicized monarch / Fang Hsüan-ling and Wei Shou -- The nine-rank system / Liu Yi -- Tʼao Chʼien / Fang Hsüan-ling [and others] -- Buddhism during the North Wei / Wei Shou -- 5. SUI and TʼANG. A letter of warning to the King of Korea / Yang Chien (Sui Wen-ti) -- The last days of Sui Yang-ti / Ssu-ma Kuang -- On the art of government / Tʼang Tʼai-tsung -- Taxation during the Tʼang dynasty / Liu Hsü -- The story of the curly beard / Tu Kuang-tʼing -- 6. THE TWO SUNGS (1). Bureaucratic affluence / Chao Yi -- Two views on the civil service examination / Ssu-ma Kuang and Ou-yang Hsiu -- Wang An-shih / Tʼo-tʼo -- Two views on the new program / Ssu-ma Kuang and Wang An-shih -- Last days of the North Sung / Ting Tʼeh-chʼi -- 7. THE TWO SUNGS (2). The absolute / Chou Tun-yi -- On reading and other matters / Lu Chiu-yüan -- On the observations of the mind / Chu Hsi -- Differences between Lu Chiu-yüan and Chu Hsi / Huang Tsung-hsi -- Pavilian of transcendence / Su Shih -- A new Bodhisattva / Anonymous -- 8. YÜAN. Yeh-lü Chʼu-tsʼai / Sung Lien -- Lamaism / Sung Lien -- Homicide / The Yüan code -- 9. MING. A comparison of two emperors / Chao Yi -- Cheng Ho's voyages / Chang Tʼing-yü [and others] -- Grand eunuch Wei / Chang Tʼing-yü et al. -- On law / Huang Tsung-hsi -- Innate knowledge / Wang Shou-jen -- A broken lute / Pao-wen Lao-jen and Li Dun-jen -- 10. CHʼING. The head-shaving decree / Shun-chih -- On good government and other matters / Kʼang-hsi -- Ho-shen's twenty crimes / Chia-chʼing -- Origin of the Hungmen Society / Li Dun-jen -- On learning / Yen Yüan -- My wife / Shen Fu. |
| Subject |
China -- Civilization.
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Civilization. (OCoLC)fst00862898
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China. (OCoLC)fst01206073
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Kultur. (DE-588c)4125698-0
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China. (DE-588c)4009937-4
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| Chronological Term |
Geschichte.
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| Added Author |
Li, Dun Jen, 1920-
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| Other Form: |
Online version: Civilization of China. New York : Charles Scribner's Sons, ©1975 (OCoLC)556359953 |
| ISBN |
0684139405 |
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9780684139401 |
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068413943X |
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9780684139432 |
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