MMW 12 Lecture Notes - Lecture 19: Joint-Stock Company, Su Shi, Zhu Xi
9 Mar 2018
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The rise and fall of the song dynasty: prose and cons of civilian governance. The imperial exam dominated upper class life, a situation that would continue until the. Zhu xi (1130-1200) and neo-confucianism trying to bring spirituality into confucianism: educated in confucianism, buddhism and daoism; passed the highest exam at 19, advocates education for its own sake. Confucian ritual: offering/sacrifice - only one to take place throughout the year, and to include action outside the home, zhu xi"s text does not include birth rite or naming ceremony. In the song and later dynasties, wealthy merchants rivaled scholar-officials in wealth and power. Woodblock printing, invented in the tang, and moveable type, invented in the 11th century, ushered in the beginnings of popular literature and printing in the vernacular. In the opera four received scholars only one of the four turns out to be a good official.
