General Characteristics of Chinese culture:

1. Tied to highly developed agriculture which confined itself almost exclusively to the plains and valleys -- mountains are scarcely utilized;

2. A complex form of political organization which were the most highly perfected in the history of human societies;

4. Man-nature relationship: harmony with nature.

o reject the positive distinction between mind and matter

o the idea of order as an organic totality

5. Human nature: Innate goodness of human nature.

6. Past-time orientation: Ancestor worship, strong family tradition

7. Relational orientation: collectivism.

Third largest in the world (after Russia and Canada)

· The People's Republic of China (PRC)

· The Republic of China (ROC, Taiwan)

· a rising urban, literate middle class increased readership and demand for fiction

2. A mode of life which is a permanent training for war (drilling of horses, hunting, practicing on horseback with bows and guns).

He is said to have born with eyebrows of eight different colors. Under his direction, his court astronomers determined the dates of the solstice and equinox, added days and month to adjust the lunar calendar and fixed the four seasons so that farmers might know when to plant and harvest crops. After ruling for seventy years, he relinquished his throne and selected Shun, instead of his own son, to be the next emperor.

4. Kan (spoken in Chianghsi Province) 2.4%;

· Most prevalent during the Han dynasty

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