Overview
China is a country that cover large geographic areas in which the different parts have many mutual differences. Fairbank and Goldman describes how today's China can be divided into two parts: the original China and Inner Asia, where the eastern parts of China is that which is the original China. Original China is densely populated and focuses largely on farming for food production. Throughout history, the Inner Asia to and from been a part of China, such as it is today. To the interior of Asia belongs Manchuria, Mongolia, Turkestan and Tibet, Fairbank and Goldman writes that these areas are significantly less populated than the original China and the peoples of Inner Asia largely live on livestock. Fairbank and Goldman suggests that the original China, in turn, can be divided into two parts: the North and South, the split occurs roughly halfway between the Yellow River, Huanghe and Yangzi River. In northern China, the Chinese culture originated and where…show more content… That there has been an autocrat is something that has characterized the country a lot and was a prerequisite for the huge park construction undertaken by emperors for thousands of years. Fairbank and Goldman writes that each state during the Warring States period, 403-221 B.C., was a philosopher who was looking for a philosophy that would bring stability to the country. One of the philosophers who was lifted up as an ideal was Confucius, 551-479 B.C., who had served during the Spring and Autumn Period. Confucius said that the hierarchy was part of the secular order and that each person had a special role to play. Taoism was one of the other schools that were lifted during the Warring States period. Daoism functioned as a counterpoint to the strict ceremonies that came with Confucianism and Fairbank and Goldman believes that Chinese scholars were Confucianist office but Taoists outside the
