Confucian Values In Han China

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Name Instructor’s Name Course Date Confucian values routinely informed the actions and worldviews of everyone in Han China, from the highest official to the lowliest peasant. True or false? Introduction According to Murray (23), the Confucian ideology clearly illustrates that nurturing the basic instinct to live by submitting to those in power is the best applicable method of blocking the ability to question the credibility of whatever has been commanded by those in power. However, this is only possible the routine of continuously submitting to the powerful does not lead to unendurable suffering. The ideology concentrated on making subjects to be compliant to the order of authority that was before them. It sought to maximize the chances…show more content…
The setting of the novel is around 70 BC almost a generation that followed after the era of Han Wudi who had over sixty million subjects under his rule across the mountains in Afghanistan all the way to the North Korean peninsula. The writer acknowledges that as much as his work is fictional, it is also a conjecture from history. The writer of the story insists that the events recorded here represent believable real lives of the people of the Han dynasty in China (Loewe 25). Bing’s growth directly or indirectly experiences all the dimensions of the social life of the men and women of Han China. Through the eyes of Bing, the writer gives us a pointer of the slavery that was carried out on the relatives of anyone who had been convicted of a…show more content…
For instance, it gives an example of how the Confucian doctrine whereby everybody was required to abbey the decrees of the powerful without questioning to the extent where the same would not lead to unendurable suffering. The writer of this book is also keen to clearly illustrate to us how the society was required to accord women a higher societal status that their sons (Novak 126). The doctrines of this dynasty were not meant to hurt anyone but were geared towards imposing high ethical standards within the dynasty. They were to be exercised by everybody so as to promote humaneness, righteousness, integrity as well as
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