01 Beginnings of Chinese Culture 1 02 Confucius: The First Private Teacher in Chinese History 9 03 Lao Zi: The Founder of Taoism 19 04 The Warring States Period: The Contention of a Hundred Schools 27 05 Ancient Historians: Uninterrupted Recording of Chinese History 35 06 Dong Zhongshu and Wang Chong: Two Contradictory Great Philosophers of the Han Dynasties 43 07 The Coming of Buddhism to China 51 08 Pure Talk and Mysterious Learning 59 09 Chan (Zen) Buddhism 67 10 Tang Poetry and Major Tang Poets 75 11 Tang Prose and Fiction: The Literary Reform Movement of the Tang Dynasty and the Development of Fiction 87 12 Wang Anshi, Sima Guang and Su Shi: Three Great Figures of the Northern Song Dynasty 95 13 Zhu Xi: The Synthesizer of the Philosophy of Principle 105 14 Ci-Poems in Irregular Meter 111 15 The Four Great Inventions 119 16 Yuan Drama: One of the Three Peaks in the History of Drama in the World 127 17 The Rebuilding of Beijing and Zheng He’s Voyages 135 18 Ming Novels and Its Three Masterpieces 143 19 The Rise of Southern Drama and Great Advance of Short Fictions in the Ming Dynasty 151 20 Ming and Early Qing Thinkers: the Yangming School and Outstanding Progressive Scholars 159 21 Early Qing Fiction and Drama 171 22 Cao Xueqin and Dream of the Red Mansions 181 23 Traditional Chinese Painting 189 24 The Opium War and Changes in Cultural Trends After It 199 25 Causes of the Long Feudal Period 207
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