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This is China. It's big. Most of your stuff probably comes from there and they have a solar farm shaped like a Panda. But most interestingly China is old. For as long as people have been talking about history there has been a China to point to. So how did China become the world's oldest continuous civilsation. What's a dynasty, who's Confucius, and is it ever ok bury people alive. Well. Let's find out.

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China - John Keay
Max Weber, Hans H. Gerth (transl.) - The Religion of China_ Confucianism and Taoism
John King Fairbank, Merle Goldman - China_ A New History-The Belknap Press (2006)
Patricia Buckley Ebrey, Kwang-ching Liu - The Cambridge Illustrated History of China-Cambridge University Press (1999)
M.Loewe , E.L.Shaughnessy - The Cambridge History of Ancient China-Cambridge University Press (1999)
Confucius - The Analects
Lee Dian Rainey - Confucius and Confucianism_ The Essentials (2010)
Xinzhong Yao - An Introduction to Confucianism
Berthron - Confucianism_ A Short Introduction

https://www.jstor.org/stable/4314793
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/00076790903006737?journalCode=fbsh20

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