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Springs and Autumns Annals
(Chunqiu

), 35

-242-

Springs-and-Autumns period (Chunqiu

, 770–453 BCE), 13–15, 33, 48, 7879, 105, 126, 137–138, 185n4, 187n7, 192n7
stability, 1, 3, 9, 40, 62, 74, 90, 123, 150, 162, 175–176; versus efficiency, 24, 67,
69;
and intellectuals, 101–102; and local elites, 113, 132; and monarch’s activism, discouraged, 66–67, 69–71; and multistate system, 13; versus progress, 8, 129–133, 163, 180–182; and rebellions, 134, 156, 158; under regional regimes, 28–30, 43; and unity, 16–18, 20–21, 29–32, 42–43, 85, 167–169
Stalinism, 164
Standen, Naomi, 29, 188n41
students: in imperial academies, 92,
96
, 124; modern, 173–174; status privileges of, 113, 124
subcounty units, 22, 121, 123–124
subelites, 148
succession struggles, 29, 46, 69–71
Sui dynasty (

, 581–618), 26,
65
, 111, 149, 189n47, 194n51
Sun En (

), rebellion leader (399–402), 153
Sun Yat-sen (

, a.k.a. Sun Zhongshan

, 1866–1925), 165, 169, 176, 205n4
“superior men” (
junzi

), 78–79, 85, 88, 94, 98–99, 118, 139, 141–142, 177
Taiping Dao (

).
See
Yellow Turbans
Taiping (

) rebellion (1850–1864), 134, 143, 144, 153, 157, 160, 203n25, 205n60
Taiwan (Republic of China), 167–169, 182
Tang dynasty (

, 618–906), 25, 38, 42,
65
,
67, 96
, 194n51; and aristocracy, 111113, 133, 199n20; collapse of, 28, 71, 153; decentralization under, 24, 26–28, 193n37; Liao as heirs of, 39; local administration in, 24, 26; rebellions under, 153, 157, 160; recruitment of officials in, 111–112, 199n18; territorial expansion in, 32, 36.
See also
An Lushan; Emperor Taizong; Huang Chao; Later Tang dynasty
Tanguts, 39, 191n71.
See also
Xi Xia
taxation, 31,
121
–124, 141, 157–158; in Han, 110, 199n14
temples: Confucian, 93, 120
Tengri, supreme God of the nomads, 37, 69
theocracy, 164
Three Bonds (
san gang

), 126–128, 141
Tiananmen incident, 1989, 170, 174, 185n3, 206n12
tianzi
(

).
See
“Son of Heaven”
Tibet, 36, 164.
See also
Tibetans
Tibetans, 39.
See also
Tibet
Toghon Temür, Yuan emperor (r. 13331368), 70, 195n62
Treaty of Shanyuan, 1005, 39–40
tribute system, 35–36, 190nn59–60
True Monarch, 50–53, 68–69, 72, 80; and the First Emperor, 54–56; and unity, 19, 29, 39; universal rule of, 32, 35–36, 190n58; yearned for, 100
True Way.
See
The Way
Tu Wei-ming, 5, 139
Tuoba (

), 62.
See also
Northern Wei dynasty
Turks, 39
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