Ancient China Lecture by Dr. Andrew Field

[@lijusav]

Thank you for making this public! It's so difficult to find good presentations of ancient Chinese history.

[@AssadNizam]

Thank you for uploading this, professor!

[@specter290]

It's interesting how Chinese surnames can be traced all the way back to the warring states/zhou dynasty periods...as opposed to english surnames like smith, baker,

[@chiangchengkooi9791]

Yes, as for me, Jiang my surnames had its origin during Zhou Dynasty. From the name of the state of Jiang, in present-day Henan province. The Duke of Zhou was the younger brother and chief adviser of Wu Wang, who established the Zhou dynasty in 1122 BC; his third son, Bo Ling, was granted lordship of the state of Jiang. Bo Ling’s descendants eventually adopted Jiang as their surname.

[@specter290]

@@chiangchengkooi9791 ahhh, a descendant of the duke of zhou, Dan the loyal regent, from his third son.

[@이하나-m2h]

I love china and i am excited to start studying chinese history. I study multiple languages and my dream is to live and study in china. Thank you for posting this.

[@PeebeesPet]

A rare example of a Chinese weeb.

[@SimplyApollo]

Upload another one!

[@noahriding5780]

Does he talk about the oldest Chinese scripts like oracle bone script, or shang dynasty scripts of the earliest period in this video? Thanks.

[@muskyoxes]

It doesn't seem right to deny the existence of a dynasty simply because they didn't invent writing. We can find a major civilization at the time and place of the Xia, so we know they're the Xia. If Chinese ancient historical works were worthless, the Shang would be mythical too. So we know the tradition isn't worthless, so it strains credulity that tradition would completely fall apart at the exact moment we don't have contemporary surviving writing

[@Telopead]

There’s no denial of civilization before Shang, but it’s irresponsible to claim it as a dynasty based only on ancient texts without archaeological evidence. Shang was fine because there were many evidence.

[@amanmoktan9772]

Hi, it's a well defined history lecture on chinese history and philosophy. M just confused about the time period of Laozu and Confusus. Some say laozu to be the teacher of Confusus but so far I haven't understood about that.

[@andrewfield]

I believe the consensus among scholars is that Laozi is more of a myth than a real historical figure. Kongzi (Confucius) was real.

[@PeebeesPet]

Lao Zi is just the name of the text. The actual text was written by different authors at different times. This is quite normal in such times.

[@user-wp8yx]

Does anyone know why the Spring and Autumn is named as such? Is this two periods or one?

[@andrewfield]

It comes from the Spring and Autumn Annals of the State of Lu, the home of Confucius

[@naturalmedicinewriting5208]

春秋 means chronicle in ancient chinese

[@ThePunjabMind]

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[@orkobose5263]

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[@sergio_jose]

Joe mama dynasty

[@lindencamelback2305]

No society is perfect, but why over eons does China never seem to learn from the past, including the present day? In short, why repeat the same mistakes forever?

[@PeebeesPet]

Why are you picking on China. This is a universal problem.

[@kevinkevinkevin1909]

Proper name should be Ancient East Asian, not China which is generic name for describing Qing Dynasty of 1600s by west. The land called China today was ruled by many different ethnic people, including Mongols and Koreans. Matter fact 56 ethnic Asians ruled the land called China today. To hide rulers, chinese government coined the phrase “Han Chinese” which disappeared 2000 years ago from invasions. Han Chinese is political term to hide the fact that land called China was ruled by many different Asians. According to historian, Mongol Genghis Khan killed some 90% Song Dynasty people which communist China believe as their people, and Qing Dynasty/Jin Dynasty founded by Korean Kim/Jin family killed 85% of Ming Dynasty people. So where is the logic that today’s communist China is 90% Han Chineses? Well, it is political association, not ethnicity. Han Chinese were initiated by communist Chinese in early 1900s, prior there was no such association.

[@gongchengming8243]

It cannot be 85%! (if you say they killed 25%, I might believe) Where did you get such unreliable data?

[@gongchengming8243]

I have to say that it is really hard for you non-Asians to get Eastern data and historical knowledge that has not been reformed or manipulated by Western media and academics.

[@PahatRout]

Killing 90% of Song Dynasty, you implied killing that percentage of the population? Likewise the same logic applied to the Ming Dynasty? If so, how did the Chinese population come from today?