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Confucius' World and His Life

Lee Dian Rainey

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This chapter contains sections titled: Confucius' World: Looking Back to a Long, Unified Civilization The Zhou Dynasty Ancestors and Spirits Heaven and the “Choice of Heaven” The Decline of the Zhou Dynasty and the Rise of the Warring States The Life of Confucius Sources Versions of the Texts Hagiography, the Pious Stories of Confucius' Life Scholarly Versions of Confucius' Life

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Key concepts: Heaven, Civilization, Literature, History, Ancient history, Art, Philosophy, Archaeology