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Annotations: Early Chinese Literature and Thought Part 1

Beginnings and Early Sage Rulers

· “Although China has always been in contact with western parts of the Eurasian landmass, it developed independently from the earlier Mesopotamian, Egyptian, and Indus Valley city civilizations” (690).

· This interesting fact is important because China developed independently outside of the literature of other civilizations and kept detailed records.

· According to the text, Fu Xi “invented the eight trigrams, symbols consisting of three broken or unbroken (Yin and Yang) lines each, which became the basis for China’s canonical divination text, the Classic of Changes (Yijing)” (690).

· I think this particular piece of information is important because without someone to set the foundation, Chinese literary tradition could have been delayed?

Earliest Dynasties: China During the Bronze Age and the Beginning of Writing

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The Zhou Conquest And The “Mandate Of Heaven”

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Works Cited

Puchner, Martin., et al. The Norton Anthology of World Literature: Shorter Fourth Edition.

W.W. Norton and Company, Inc., New York, NY, 2021