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551 BC-479 BC
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LIFE OF CONFUCIUS
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Confucius (Kongzi) was an eminent
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teacher and philosopher whose
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views, recorded in "The Analects" Tañamor

(Lunyu), exerted an enormous

influence over later developments in

Chinese thought and government.

175 BC-105 BC
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LIFE OF DONG ZHONGSHU  
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Dong Zhongshu's synthesis of
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Daoism, Legalism and
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Confucianism provided a means to Tañamor

legitimate Han rule, and became a

key part of imperial ideology for

subsequent dynasties.
141 BC-87 BC
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Liu Che: Emperor Wu (r. 141-87 BCE )
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expanded the Han Empire into Central AND
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he promoted state activism, and his reign

also witnessed the rise of Imperial

Confucianism which served as the

ideological justification for his imperialistic

policies
768 BC-824 BC
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HAN YU
A leading intellectual of the later Tang
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dynasty, Han Yu advocated a return to AND
Confucian learning as a means to revitalize
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the government. To this end, he argued Tañamor

against imperial patronage of Buddhism, and

promoted the "ancient style" (guwen) of prose.

He is considered a forerunner of the Song

Neo-Confucian movement
1017 BC-1073 BC
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LIFE OF ZHOU DUNYI
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Zhu Xi considered Zhou the first to
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Mencius (4th c. BCE) and claimed

that he had a direct influence on the

more sophisticated philosophical

ideas of the Cheng Brothers.

1150 BC-1223 BC
LIFE OF YE SHI
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Ye Shi, a prominent official and statecraft UP
thinker in 12th-13th century Wenzhou, Zhejiang;
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the representative voice of the so-

called Yongjiaschool. His political essays bear

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on the Song government and economy. He wrote

a famous defenseof Zhu Xi in 1188, yet his later

stinging criticisms of the speculative philosophy

also brought him renown as the critic of Zhu Xi.

1313 BC
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The Yuan court reopens the civil service

recruitment examinations. For the first

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time the examinations test the Four Books AND
with commentaries by Zhu Xi (1130-1200), CONFUSED
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the leader of the Neo-Confucian Tañamor

movement. They would continue to be

required in the theMing and Qing

dynasties. The examinations were

abolished in 1905.
1472 BC-1528 BC
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WANG YANGMING
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The leading Neo-Confucian of
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the Ming dynasty, he argued for
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the identity of mind (xin) and Tañamor

principle (li), and emphasized the

innate knowledge of the good

(liangzhi).
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