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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