MMW 11 Study Guide - Final Guide: Ding Huan, Filial Piety, Zengzi

• School: UCSD
• Department: Making of the Modern World
• Course: MMW 11
• Professor: David Jordan

Document Summary

Lecture summaries: chinese theories of life & war. Session 22 chinese geography, the expansion of warfare & chinese responses. Haywood says that earliest chinese archaeological sites using wet-rice farming techniques are along eastern coast, around modern shanghai and northwards. Zhou dynasty moved capital to eastern city of luoyang due to western capital of hao being prone to barbarian raids. Loess soil is formed from wind-blown sediments: distribution of loess soils corresponds with distribution of yangshao neolithic sites. U(cid:374)zi says that iro(cid:374)"s a(cid:448)aila(cid:271)ility (cid:373)ade sure that nothing in warfare was more important than info. Sunzi says that ordinary soldier must be ignorant of overall strategy if you want to win. Sunzi leaves king helu of wu wu gobbled up by southwest state of chu. Most important chinese states appeared in warring states period (= late eastern zhou period: most important chinese philosophers/ texts arose around this time too. 1200 770 western zhou period.