Hokkaido

Honshu

Shikoku

Kyushu

Gathers yellow dust (loess) from N China

Periodically moves and kills lots of people but makes fertile soil

Grow millet in fertile soil

In S China

monsoon rains=lots of rice

Cosmogony: casaul (origin)

Cosmology: correlative

No Cosmogony in Asia (universe never created. always existed)

God=Guilt

People=shame

Confucius

people born evil

want what we dont have (want to be good but aren't)

cant have good without bad

so say good you create bad

Daoist text

-throws out confucian idea that you can learn the way

can have the way without the "not way"

-by Laozi

1. old man

2. sick man

3. dead man

4. aesetic

leaves palace. becomes aesetic--> it is a selfish extreme

indulges every pleasure-->too much pleasure is bad

=find the middle path

Siddharth Gautama sits under the Bhodi tree until he has understanding

Awakens as The Buddha (The Enlightened One)

The Buddhist's First Sermon

1. Lack of Self (there is no I)

2. 4 Noble Truths

3. Nirvana: not bliss. get rid of self-ness

4. Parinirvana: on death bed. final extinction. when Buddha left

we are all suffering

desire is the cause of suffering

to get rid of suffering get rid of desire

to get rid of desire follow 8 fold path

1. Zen:conciousness only. no real self

2. Chau

4000-2000BC (neolithic China)

prewriting

red coiled wrapped pottery

hints at writing (fish facing each other)

3000-2000BC Early China

black eggshell thin pottery

used a wheel

emergence of bronze

heirarchical society

2205-1500BC (first dynasty)

3 dynasties period

no writing yet

Nation Toppler: Moxi 

-concubine distracted Emperor

3 dynasties period

1500-1045BC after Xia

earliest writing

Shangdi

emergence of bronze

human sacrifice

concupine caused succession crisis

part of shang dynasty

great ancestor of the past

communicated w/ through king and shamans

-oracle bones

also protestant word for "God"

3 dynasties Period

1045-221BC after Shang

Replaced Shangdi with Tian-->mandate of heaven

human sacrifice

 hegemon system

221-206BC Imperial Period

First Empire

Zhou was middle kingdom protected by Qin. Qin took over

Legalism (reward & punishment)

ruler never responsible (ministers were at fault)

king born of a merchant...

Qinshi Huangdi: 1st emperor (terracota soldier tomb)

Lu Buwei: wealthy Qin merchant

3. Prince Zichu: will become king

Lu Buwei gives Prince a girl as a gift. She is pregnant with Lu Bewei's son. Child is named Ying Zhueng and becomes king. Poisons Lu Buwei so nobody finds out he is born of a merchant

-->confucians call him (merchants son) evil b/c he killed his dad

-36 Commandries (provinces)

-Triumverite: civil governor, military commandot, inspector secretary (spy)

-Standardization: measuring, axil width, coinage=china is a smooth machine

-Group Accountability

-General Mengtian-->great wall

-Burned all books & burried all scholars alive

Qinshi Huangdi-drank mercury to be immortal

His death is masked by Eunich who takes power

Chen She: starts a rebellion when transporting prisoners

206BC-AD220

Imperial Period After Qin

word for China in chinese

when all chinese traits were established

Emperor Liu Bang: has change of view and allows confucianism to dominate society

-summoned scholars to rewrite books previously burned

Dou Wu (official): plotted against eunichs

eunichs have him killed

started Great Proscription: exiled confucian scholars

few remaining confucians start to write of oddities (losing mandate)-->rebellion-->eunichs executed

AD 220-280

after Han

china moves from unity-->disunity

bloody period

San Guo

Ad420-581

after 3 kingdoms

Buddhism

Religious Daoism: from philosophy becomes religion

AD581-618

after 6 dynasties

reunification

great canal-->China becomes way wealthier

AD618-907

after Sui

Second Golden Age

connect w/ west, silk route, famous poetry

Yang Guifei: fav consort of Emperor. plum (challenge idea of beauty)

-her adopted son/lover helps w/ rebellion that weakens dynasty

Wu Zetian: only empress ever 

devout buddhist

confucians massacred her lovers, she went mad, abdicated

AD907-960

after Tang

china is a fractured mess

becomes increasingly buddhist

AD960-1279

after 5 dynasties

confucianism is reconstructed

height of art,math, etc

merchants gain status

fall: last emperors got lazy, monguls swept down

during Song

Buddhist influence (meditation)

Qi: essence

Li: Pattern

self control was everything

serious study of "things"

what is the nature of gender: self control and gender distinctions (foot binding)

AD 1279-1368

after Song

Mongolian empire: very harsh

Beijing becomes capital

first catholic missionary

confucians lost status

AD1368-1644

after Yuan

lots of artistic growth

harsh to prevent possibility of another Yuan

novel emerged

Chinese acrobatics

founder: Zhu Yuanzhang

-hongwu (vast military power)

Han Feizi

Lisi