The Chinese University of Hong Kong
Intellectual Change in Early China: Warring States and Han
The Chinese University of Hong Kong

Intellectual Change in Early China: Warring States and Han

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Prof. John Lagerwey

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23 hours to complete
3 weeks at 7 hours a week
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There are 6 modules in this course

This module introduces the key concepts that will be used throughout the course and the basic outlines of Chinese cultural history, starting with the Warring States (481-256 BCE).

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3 videos3 readings3 quizzes

This module explains why the intellectual elite attacked traditional religious practices like divination and shamanism.

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6 videos4 readings6 quizzes

This module presents two forms of self-cultivation—Confucian and Daoist—that emerged during the Warring States.

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5 videos5 quizzes

We are going to learn about the meaning of “transcendence” as seen in the sacrifice to Heaven of the “Son of Heaven” (the king and later the emperor) and in the new cosmology of the Dao (Way) and Qi (vital energy).

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6 videos1 reading6 quizzes

This module is about local and imperial religion in the Han dynasty (206 BCE-220 BC).

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3 videos2 readings3 quizzes

This module states how new theories of healing based on the cosmology of Dao and Qi, in the face of the political and social crisis of the second century CE, made way for a return of ideas of demon-caused illness.

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5 videos2 readings5 quizzes

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4.8 (31 ratings)
Prof. John Lagerwey
The Chinese University of Hong Kong
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