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Imperial Autocracy
Rise
political reunification.
Unity was so strong an ideal because its promised
stability, peace, and prosperity.
No civil war
Preventing invasion from the nomadic empires
Europe at one time had kings and emperors of many kingdoms and
empires all making history simultaneously.
China ideally, and most of the time in fact, had only one emperor
on earth, like one sun in the sky.
Decline
At the end of 17th century, the Kingdom of France was just getting
organized while Imperial China had long been a great centralized
empire governed by a uniform administrative system.
Warring States
CHIN
Wade-Giles
Chin
(Qin)
pinyin
In 771 BC, due to the barbarian invasion, the Zhou house gave
up the fertile Wei valley near Xian
Small boundary, few farmland, lack of harvest and manpower
The Five bonds (wu lun) king & minister, husband & wife,
parent and children, elder & younger brother, between friends
John King Fairbank, western observers were early impressed with their
agnostic this-worldliness. As a philosophy of life the golden mean, .
And, above all, a mellow humanism taking man, not God, as the
centre of the universe.
But if we take this Confucian view of life in its social and political
context, we will see that its esteem for age over youth, for the past over
present, for established authority over innovation has in fact provided
one of the great historic answers to the problem of social stability. It has
been the most successful of all systems of conservatism.
Chinese individualism
Religious Taoism
Lao Zi
Non-action wu-wei
Zhuang Zi
When the persuasion did not work out, they would help
the weaker state which was unjustly attacked to defend
themselves from the invasion from powerful state.
astronomy
or astrology,
geography,
medicine, physics
Fire
Earth
Wood
Water
Metal
Shang Yang
Han Fei Zi