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1.beginnings of chinese culture

2.confucius:the first private teacher in chinese history

3.lan zi:the founder of taoism

4.the warring states period:the contention of a hundred schools

5.ancient historians:uninterrupted recording of chi-nese history

6.dong zhongshu and wang chong:two contra-dictory great philosophers of the han dynasties

7.the coming of buddhism to china

8.pure talk and mysterious learning

9.chan（zen）buddhism and huineng the sixth patriarch

10.tang poetry and major tang poets

11.tang prose and fiction:the literary reform

12.wang anshi,sima guang and su shi:three great figures of the northern song dynasty

13.zhu xi:the synthesizer of the philosophy of principle

14.ci-poems in irregular meter

15.the four great inventions

16.yuan drama:one of the three peaks in the history of drama in the world

17.the rebuilding of beijing and zheng he's voyages

18.ming novels and its three masterpieces

19.the rise of southern drama and great ad-vance of short fictions in the ming dynasty

20.Ming and early qing thinkers

21.Early qing fiction and drama

22.Cao xueqin and dream of the red mansions

23.Traditional chinese painting

24.The opium war and changes in cultural trends after it

25.Causes of the long feudal period