China: Hundred Schools to One
- 1977 ----- color ----- 19 min ----- 16mm
- (Chinese History series, Part 3) Covers the warring between the states and the technological and agricultural revolution leading up to the formation of the Ch'in empire (475 B.C. to 221 B.C.) through a variety of artifacts, documents and art materials. The major changes were social; ministers, generals and merchants sought personal advancement with no fixed loyalty to anyone. Formation of the "Hundred Schools of Thought", the most important of which include The Militarists, The Yang Chu School, The Confucanists, The Taoists, The Yin and Yang School and The Legalists, to address society's problems. The Legalists triumphed over the others setting the stage for the making of an empire.
- Topics: (China, History: Asian)
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