Ancient China & the “Three Schools”
(Chapter 2)
Huang Ho (Yellow) River
Yangtze River
Shang Dynasty
Family
Ancestor Worship
Education
Zhou Dynasty
“The Mandate of Heaven”
(Cosmos and Chaos)
The Three Schools:
Confucianism (Document pg. 49)
Confucius/Kong Fuzi
The Analects
Family/Patriarchy/Yin and Yang/Family & State
Education/Mandarins
Daoism (Taoism)
Lao Dai Daodejing (or the Laozi)
“Dao”
Confucius: Rational standard of ethics
Lao Dai: The way of nature, the order of the cosmos
Legalism (Document pg. 51)
The Era of Warring States
Han Fei Zi
Innate corruption of human nature
Qin (Ch’in) Dynasty
Shi Huangdi—“First Emperor”
Great Wall
Tomb at Xi’an
Ban Zhao
Lessons for Women
Respect for men, subordination, but also education for women
