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Early Chinese Literature and Thought (Volume A) China • oldest surviving civilization • regional identity versus culturalpolitical unity • military elites • sage rulers (Fu Xi) • Yellow River Huangdi and Fu Xi China: Bronze Age • • • • • • Shang Dynasty bone divination ancestor worship 3,200-year history logographic “brush talk” Zhou Conquest and Decline • • • • • agrarian “Heaven” mandate King Wen, King Wu separation into eastern and western Eastern Zhou • Spring, Autumn Annals Period • Warring States Period • new diplomacy • military technology advance • end of old aristocracy • Confucius Master’s Literature • • • • • • Confucians Mohists Daoists Logicians Legalists Yin-Yang Masters Confucius • • • • • • moral education analects Daoism Classic of Poetry “think no evil” “poor yet cheerful, rich yet considerate” Zhuangzi • Daoism • anecdote • dangers of persuasion • necessity of language Qu Yuan, Imperial China • “Encountering Sorrow” • Qin • poor character, strong military • 221 B.C.E. • central bureaucracy Han Feizi • • • • • Legalist veneration of the written word oral persuasion applicable knowledge “The difficult thing about persuasion is to know the mind of the person one is trying to persuade and to be able to fit one’s words to it” (p. 1428). Qin Burning of Books • 213 B.C.E. • intellectual disagreement • practical manuals Han Dynasty • Emperor Wu • campaigning • Five Classics: Classic of Changes, Classic of Documents, Classic of Poetry, Spring and Autumn Annals, Record of Rites • Sima Qian, history The Emergence of Unified China The Han Empire Test Your Knowledge What was the ancient Chinese Classic of Changes (the I Ching)? a. a farming text b. a divination text c. a history d. an early poetry anthology Test Your Knowledge The earliest Chinese writing used characters that looked like: ___________ . a. the Phoenician alphabet b. hieroglyphs c. bird and animal tracks d. elements like water, fire. and air Test Your Knowledge The “Mandate from Heaven” was a way justifying which of the following? a. the correctness of one philosophy over another b. the importance of military rule c. changes in crop yield from year to year d. shifts in power from one dynasty to another Test Your Knowledge What was “Masters Literature”? a. collections of great dramatic works b. collections of philosophical texts c. historical court records d. military strategy guides This concludes the Lecture PowerPoint presentation for The Norton Anthology Of World Literature Visit the StudySpace at: http://wwnorton.com/studyspace For more learning resources, please visit the StudySpace site for The Norton Anthology Of World Literature.