T’ang and Sung China with Peter Bol
Conversations in World History
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The Importance of Neoconfusionism
80% of who we are comes from the sun dynasty. The examination system requires teachers to learn neoconfusionism. Neo confusion offered a reinterpretation of antiquity. It had a philosophy that shifted authority away from the political system to the individual. New confusions reject idea of an activist state, they say all can be moral people.
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