Contents Briefing

This volume systematizes the developing course of political ideologies from the Qin Dynasty down to the Northern and Southern Dynasties. With the deification of monarchical power in the Western Han Dynasty and its variations as the axis, the book expounds the re-organization of the political ideologies in the early period of the Han Dynasty, describes the multi-dimensional thought about the guiding political ideology initiated by Emperor Wu's worshipping of the Confucianists during the middle period of the Western Han Dynasty, discusses the ideological trend of political adjustment in the later stage of the Western Han Dynasty, and related the pluralistic development of the political ideology during the Wei, Jin, and Northern and Southern Dynasties.