CHIN 50 Study Guide - Final Guide: Gunboat Diplomacy, Democracy Wall, Meiji Period
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When moral principles are applied to the affairs of governmentthe form they take and the use they are put to depend upon laws, but their promotion and execution depend upon individuals. In the worthiness of its individual officials with which its institutions administered the law, no dynasty has surpassed the early. Likewise, in the suitability of its laws for perpetuation in later ages, and in the expression given them in literary form, no book is so perfect as the. Li qingzhao was a female poet who survived the fall of northern song and fled. Pure serene music contained a sad and nostalgic mood. Xu heng was a scholar and a mentor who used plain language to subserve neo- Mongols; promoted ruling by han institution and importance of agriculture; The mongols suspended the civil service exams at first but reinstated them under emperor.