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Darkness and Brilliance: From the Spring and Autumn Period to Qin Unification
Yang Zhao Retells Chinese History, Season 2
Completed · 52 episodes
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Audio in Chinese
1. Why Does the History of the Past Keep “Changing”? 2. The Historical Truth Hidden Behind “Lighting Beacons to Amuse the Lords” 3. The Decline of Lineage Order and Rise of the Masters 4. Did the Hundred Schools Share a Common Intellectual Source? 5. A Fallen Aristocracy: Were Confucius’s Ancestors Once Feudal Lords? 6. Confucius’s Journey into Politics 7. As the Great House Fell, How Did Confucius Face Life’s Predicament? 8. The Confucian Spirit: I Would Go Forward Even Against Thousands 9. Confucius and My Dream of Cinema 10. A “Rebel” of His Age: Confucius Between Genuine Feeling and Faith 11. “Man-Eating Rites”? That Has Nothing to Do with Confucius 12. “Follow the Heart Without Breaking the Rules” and the Joy of Confucius Bonus | Yang Zhao Remembers Yu Ying-shih, a Brilliant Historian of His Generation 13. Why Are There So Many Stories of Suicide in the Spring and Autumn Era? 14. Ideas of Life and Death Inherited from the Spring and Autumn Era 15. For a Gentleman, Suicide Meant “Knowing Fate,” Not Taking Life Lightly 16. From Spring and Autumn to Warring States: No Hegemons, Only Powerful States 17. Wars Among States and a Quiet Transformation of the World 18. Were Luxury Goods Part of “Urban Life” in the Warring States? 19. “Enrich the State and Strengthen the Army” as Commoners Rise 20. Why Did the People of Chu Call Themselves “Barbarians”? 21. The Songs of Chu and the Allure of Southern Culture 22. Qu Yuan Folds Personal Grief and Anger into an Age 23. To Understand Zhuangzi, Begin with the School of Names 24. From “Names” to the “Way”: How Zhuangzi Transcended the Logicians 25. Zhuangzi: An Existentialist in Ancient China? 26. How Do Laozi and Zhuangzi Differ? 27. How Can We Date the Appearance of the Laozi? 28. The Laozi as an Unusual Guide to Conduct in the Human World 29. “Anti-Intellectualism” in an Age of Chaos 30. The Mohists Seize an Age That Rewards Ability 31. Confucians Versus Mohists: Their Decisive Differences 32. From Mohism to Mohist Logic: A Forgotten Rational Tradition 33. Is the Form of Debate as Important as Its Content? 34. How Can a Statement Communicate an Idea More Effectively? 35. Mencius, the Confucian Fighter 36. From Unrestrained Debate Toward an Age of Unification 37. Xunzi’s Ideal Society: An Order of Ritual and Law 38. Legalism’s Practical Achievements and Attitude 39. Shang Yang’s Reforms and the Reconstruction of Royal Power 40. Legalism as the Foundation of Empire 41. Division Must End in Union: The Urgency and Limits of Unification 42. Qin’s Imagination of “All Under Heaven” and Its Practice of Statutory Rule 43. The Manufactured Qin Shi Huang and the Power of the Emperor 44. Was Autocracy Qin’s Only Choice? 45. The Still-Unfathomable Mausoleum of Qin Shi Huang 46. The Imperial Mind Behind “Burning Books and Burying Scholars” 47. Qin Shi Huang’s Political Achievements and Hidden Dangers 48. The Failure of Law and the Inevitable Fall of Qin 49. Forces Gathering to Overthrow Qin 50. After Qin Collapsed, How Could a New Order Be Imagined? 51. Xiang Yu: Was Failure Foreshadowed from the Start?