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1 Beginnings of Chinese Culture 2

Huang Di and Yu 2

—The Shang and the oracle bones 4

—The Zhou and the fief system 6

—The Spring and Autumn and the Warring States periods 8

2 Confucius 14

His life 14

—The Analects 18

—Moral principles 18

—Humane government 20

—The rigth way to live and behave 24

—Principles of education and teaching methods 24

—Confucianism made the state thought 28

3 Lao Zi and Taoism 30

Lao Zi s life 30

—The Dao De Jing 30

—The meaning of Dao 32

—Reversion is the movement of Dao 34

—Nonaction as the way of government 36

—Taoism and Confucianism compared 38

—Lao Zi s influence 40

Mo Zi 44

4 The Contention of A Hundred Schools 46

—Mencius 46

—Zhuang Zi 48

—Han Fei 52

5 Ancient Historians 58

Early official historians 58

—The Spring and Autumn Annals 60

—Sima Qian 62

—Ban Gu 64

6 Dong Zhongshu and Wang Chong 68

The unification of China by the Qin 68

—The founding of the Han 70

—Dong Zhongshu 70

—The interaction between Heaven and man 72

Wang Chong 74

—His criticism of Dong Zhongshu 76

7 The Coming of Buddhism 80

Life of Sakyamuni 80

—Cause and effect 82

—The four noble truths 84

—The coming of Buddhism to Chian 88

The Southern and Northern Dynasties 90

8 Pure Talk and Mysterious Learning 90

—Pure Talk 94

—Mysterious Learning 94

—The Taoist religion 94

9 Chan（Zen）Buddhism 98

Chinese Buddhism 98

—The beginning of Chan Buddhism 98

—Huineng 100

—Chan principles 106

The Sui and the Tang 108

10 Tang Poetry 108

—Early Chinese poetry 110

—The golden age of Chinese poetry 112

—Li Bai 114

—Du Fu 116

—Bai Juyi 118

11 Tang prose and Fiction 122

Prose before the tang 122

—Han Yu and Liu Zongyuan 124

—Beginnings of fiction 126

—The rise of chuanqi or short stories 128

12 Wang Anshi, Sima Guang and Su Shi 132

From the Tang to the Song 132

—Wang Anshi 136

—Sima Guang 140

—Su Shi 142

13 The Philosophy of Principle 146

New philosophical questions discussed in the Song 146

—His philosophy 148

—Zhu Xi 148

14 Ci-Poems in Irregular Meter 154

The beginning of ci 154

—Li Yu 154

—Liu Yong 156

—Su Shi 156

—Li Qingzhao 158

—Lu You 160

—Xin Qiji 162

—Paper 166

15 The Four Great Inventions 166

The compass 166

—Gunpowder 168

—Printing 170

—The rise of the Mongols 172

—The founding of the Yuan 174

16 Yuna Drama 176

Sanqu and zaju 176

—Guan Hanqing and The Injustice Suffered by Dou E 178

—The development of Drama 178

—Wang Shifu and Romance of the Western Chamber 182

—Ji Junxiang and The Orphan of the Zhao Family 184

17 The Rebuilding of Beijing and Zheng He s Voyages 188

The founding of the Ming 188

—Beijing made the capital of the country 190

—The rebuilding of Beijing 190

—Zheng He s voyages 192

—Seeds of capitalism 194

Novels written in the spoken language 198

18 Ming Novels 198

—Romance of the Three Kingdoms 200

—Water Margin 204

—Journey to the West 206

19 Ming Drama and Short Fiction 210

Northern Drama and Southern Drama 210

—Tang Xianzu and The Peony Pavilion 212

—Three Volumes of Words 214

—The development of short fiction 214

20 Ming and Early Qing Thinkers 220

Wang Shouren 220

—The fall of the Ming and the founding of the Qing 222

—Matteo Ricci 228

—Huang Zongxi 228

—Gu Yanwu 232

—Wang Fuzhi 234

21 Early Qing Fiction and Drama 240

Strange Tales from a Scholar s Studio 242

—Palace of Eternal Life 244

—The Peach Blossom Fan 246

—The Scholars 248

22 Dream of the Red Mansions 252

Cao Xueqin s life 252

—Baoyu and Daiyu 254

—Society revealed in the novel 254

—The language of the novel 256

— Red Studies 258

23 Painting 260

Ancient painting 260

—Buddhist painting and Dunhuang grottoes 262

—Landscape painting 262

—Literary men s painting 264

—Formats 266

—Inscriptions and seals 268

The Opium War 270

24 The Opium War and Changes in Cultural Trends After It 270

—The Treaty of Nanjing 272

—Advanced ideas of some scholars 274

—The westernization drive 274

—The reformists 276

—The failure of reform 278

25 Why China s Feudal Period Was So Long 282

A natural economy 282

—A stable feudal political system 284

—A highly-developed feudal culture 286