Contents Briefing

The book explores the origin of the history of Chinese political ideologies -- the Shang Dynasty's ideology of the king's power blessed by gods, then the ideology of worshipping Heaven, protecting the common people and the ownership of the country by the king in the Western Zhou Dynasty. Next, the book discusses the political ideology of the Spring and Autumn Period - emphasizing the people rather than gods, and the later contention of a hundred schools of thought, including the Confucianists, Legalists and Taoists.