The architecture of the buildings in the Temple of Heaven ingeniously embodies the concept of holding nature in awe. While...
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The Temple of Heaven was constructed during the reign of Emperor Yongle (r.1403-1424) of the Ming Dynasty(1368-1644), and completed in...
Sunzi's Art of War was introduced abroad from the Tang Dynasty (618-907) onwards.A Japanese student named Kibimakibi took the book...
As a military classic, Sunzi's Art of War provides a complete set of strategiesand tactics for winning a war. Paradoxically,...
The rich philosophical thought in Sunzi's Art of War has aroused greater and greater attention from scholars of ancient Chinese...
The rich philosophical thought in Sunzi's Art of War has aroused greater and greater attention from scholars of ancient Chinese...
"Naturalness"is an important concept of Laozi's philosophy. It refers to a natural state of being, an attitude of following the...
Sunzi's Art of War(Sunzi bingfa), is an ancient classic on war. It consists of 13 chapters in about 6,000 characters....
Laozi saw the world as a madding crowd of vanity. He chose to live a simple, quiet life, and to...
On the basis of "naturalness"and"non-action,"Laozi proposed the view of "overcoming the strong by being weak."The era Laozi lived in was...
The book Laozi was written around the sixth century BC. The author is generally believed to be Lao Dan, or...
Before Confucius, only the nobility had the right to education. He was the first figure in Chinese history to initiate...
Ren and li are the two core concepts of Confucius'doctrine about people. When his student Fan Chi asked him about...
Confucius(551-479 BC), known in China as Kongzi, given name Qiu and alias Zhongni, was a native of Zouyi(present-day Qufu in...
Human beings have only one home under the heavens. How we arrange our domestic lives and how we live together...
The two reigns of Yongzheng and his celebrated son Qianglong, who succeeded his father in 1736, are taken together on account...
We have now reached the culmi nating epoch of the ceramic art in China by common consent of all connoisseurs. The...
The Ming Dynasty is famous in the annals of Chinese ceramic art for having made such great advances under its...
Beginning with the Song Dynasty, which reigned from 960 to 1279, when it was overthrown by Kublai Khan, the grandson...
Much progress must have been made in the ceramic production of the province of Jiangxi. It is recorded in the...