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A Short History of the World Chapter 30 - Confucius and Lao Tse
In which the troubled but fertile period of early China is illuminated through the lives of Confucius and Lao Tse, whose contrasting philosophies arose amid the political fragmentation and cultural ferment of the sixth century B.C. This epoch, marked by distant kingdoms and nomadic incursions, saw the beginnings of ideas and institutions that would profoundly shape the Chinese spirit and civilisation.
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