HIS 251: Making of
Modern Asia TRADITIONAL CHINA:
An Introduction (Compiled by Professor John Leung)
Major Aspects and Characteristics of "Traditional China"
The
substance of Confucianism: Essential teachings and values (pp. 5-6)
Confucianism and traditional Chinese social and political institutions (pp. 5-7)
The Confucian School and other philosophies/value systems, and the evolution of Confucianism (pp. 6, 8-9)
The making of orthodoxy and a "universal" moral order (pp. 9-10)
Monarchy
and dynasties
Bureaucracy (pp.7, 12-14)
Centralism and regionalism (pp. 2-3)
Ethnic contestation (pp. 3, 10-11)
Hierarchy:
Bureaucratic and landed gentries, peasants and other
classes (pp. 10-11)
Patriarchy (pp. 5-6)
Urban vs. rural China
Regional Development (p. 3)
Ethnic division