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Kodansha History of China, Season 2: Shang, Zhou, and the Warring States
From City-States to Zhonghua
Completed · 36 episodes
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Audio in Chinese
0. The “Lies” About the Xia, Shang, and Zhou 1. The Three Dynasties and the Warring States: History Left Out 2. What Is “China,” and What Is “All Under Heaven”? 3. East Asia's Investiture System and the Spread of Chinese Characters 4. From Attacking Shang to Conquering It—How Should Historical Texts Be Read? 5. The Western Zhou's Origins and Fall: An Invented Republican Age 6. Ancient Calendars and the Hidden Story of King Ping's Eastern Move 7. The Partition of Jin and the Inheritance of the Xia Homeland 8. The Birth of a Boasting Club in Zuo's Commentary: Why Was Han Destined to Be Orthodox? 9. Outsiders from the “Central States”: The Zhou Dynasty's Unorthodox Origins 10. The Three Dynasties as Seen by Qin and Qi 11. Wei's Bamboo Annals and the Three Dynasties 12. The Three Dynasties Through Chu Eyes: The Southern World 13. Zhongshan's View of the Three Dynasties: A Revolution in Han Historical Writing 14. What Were the Nine Provinces and Five Domains? | Yu the Great and the Tribute of Yu 15. What Waters Did Yu the Great Actually Control? 16. How Many Ancient Kings Were There? | Genealogies of Xia and Shang 17. What Can Oracle-Bone Inscriptions Tell Us? 18. From the Zhou's Eastern Move to the Chinese-Character Cultural Sphere 19. “Look, That Man Resembles a Stray Dog” | Confucius in the Records of the Grand Historian 20. Why Was Confucius “Created”? | Beginning with the Captured Qilin 21. Searching for the Historical Confucius: A Hero in His Own Right 22. Who Could Be Called a Hegemon? | The Five Hegemons, Part 1 23. Labeling People Began with the Spring and Autumn Annals | The Five Hegemons, Part 2 24. Was “Hegemon” Praise or Criticism? | The Five Hegemons, Part 3 25. Who First Studied with Ruthless Determination? | The Age of Alliances 26. How “Roosters, Dogs, and Thieves” Became an Idiom | Lord Mengchang's Alliance 27. Why Did Qu Yuan Drown Himself? | A Constructed Tragedy and the Four Lords 28. Qin Shi Huang and the Eight Trigrams | The End of the Warring States 29. Origins of the Hundred Schools | Humanity and the Cosmos in the Warring States 30. What Did the “Unification” of Writing Mean? | Technology and Script 31. Weights and Measures: The Foundation of Institutional Change 32. Why Have Noble Ranks? | Shang Yang's Reforms from Land to People 33. What Did a Royal Tour Inspect? | From Ruler to Emperor 34. The Five Hegemons as a Zhou-Centered Idea | Looking Back, Part 1 35. Most Scholarly Questions Have No Consensus | Looking Back, Part 2