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Competition and Institutionalization – The Rise of the Confucian-Legalist State and Patterns of Chinese History Dingxin Zhao University of Chicago  To Yiqun  Table of Contents Chapter 1: Introduction Chapter 2: A Theoretical Excursus Part I The Historical Background of the Eastern Zhou Dynasty Chapter 3: The Western Zhou Order and Its Decline Chapter 4: The Historical Setting of the Eastern Zhou Part II War-driven Dynamism in Eastern Zhou Chapter 5: The Age of Hegemons (770-546 BCE) Chapter 6: The Age of Transition (545-420 BCE) Chapter 7: The Age of Total War (419-221 BCE): (1) The Hundred Schools of Thought Chapter 8: The Age of Total War: (2) Rise of the Ancient China Absolutist State Chapter 9: The Age of Total War: (3) The Road to Unification Chapter 10: The Advent of the Confucian-Legalist State Part III Confucian-Legalist State and Patterns of Chinese History Chapter 11: Pre-Song Ideological and Military Challenges to the Confucian-Legalist Political Framework Chapter 12: Nomad -Sedentary Relationships in Chinese History Chapter 13: Neo-Confucianism and the Advent of a “Confucian Society” Chapter 14: Market Economy under the Confucian-Legalist State Chapter 15: Concluding Remarks  Chapter 1: Introduction This book aims to provide a sociological analysis on the patterns of Chinese history. The book contains three parts after the introduction and theoretical chapters. The two chapters in Part I lay out the background of the Western Zhou Dynasty (ca. 1045-771 BCE) which was a formative age of the Chinese civilization. I focus on the nature of the state at the time, as well as social and geographic/climatic conditions. The core of the book is Part II, which focuses on the history of China from the Spring Autumn and Warring States Era (770-221 BCE, Eastern Zhou Dynasty hereafter) to the early part of the Western Han Dynasty (206 BCE - 8 CE). Together, these chapters examine the driving forces behind the emergence of Chinese philosophies, mar