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It's China. It's big. Most of your stuff probably comes from there and they have a solar farm shaped like a panda. But the most interesting thing is that China is old. For as long as people have been talking about history, there has been a China worth mentioning. So how did China become the world's oldest continuous civilization? What is a dynasty, who is Confucius, and is it still OK to bury people alive? GOOD. Let's find out.
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China – John Keay
Max Weber, Hans H. Gerth (trans.) – Chinese religion_ 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 History of Ancient China at Cambridge-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 brief introduction
https://www.jstor.org/stable/4314793
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/00076790903006737?journalCodefbsh20
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