China Flashcards
Filial Piety
Respect shown by children for their parents and elders
Confucius
China’s most influential leader
Bureaucracy
A system of departments and agencies formed to carry out the work of government.
Han Dynasty
A Chinese dynasty that ruled from 202 BC to AD 9, and again from AD 23 to 220.
Legalism
A Chinese political philosophy based on the idea that a highly efficient and powerful government is the key to social order.
Daoism
A philosophy based on the idea that only natural order is important.
The relation among all living things.
Laozi
Taught that people should be guided by a universal force called the Dao. Lived in his mothers womb for 60 yrs.
Autocracy
A government in which the ruler has unlimited power and issues it in an arbitrary manner.
Mandate of Heaven
The divine approval thought to be the basis of royal authority.
Yin and Yang
The two powers that govern the natural rhythms of life.
Civil Service Examinations
The administrative departments of a government – especially those in which employees are hired on the basis of their scores on examinations.
Sun Tzu
A Chinese military general, strategist, and philosopher. Wrote the Art of War.
The Art of War
An ancient Chinese treatise attributed to Sun Tzu.
Toa Te Ching
Written by Laozi, a book about his beliefs that natural order involves relations among all living things.
Analects of Confucius
Confucius’s students collected his words and let them into a book.
