The problem of governing (founding a state, keeping it together) in early East Asia seems repeatedly to have revolved around trying a) to harness the economic power of the land and those who cultivated it

Topic: The problem of governing (founding a state, keeping it together) in early East Asia seems repeatedly to have revolved around trying a) to harness the economic power of the land and those who cultivated it, i.e., the peasantry and b) to curb or eliminate other power-holders who stood between the state and peasantry. What role did the philosophies we have been studying play in this process? What solutions (or suggestions) did—for example—Confucian thought, Daoist ideas, Buddhism, or Legalism offer, separately or in combination? Did they work differently in different countries? Refer to at least two of the three areas we’ve been studying in formulating your essay

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Reading: attached file texts and the book Patricia Buckley Ebrey(Ch. 2 “Philosophers and Warring States” (20-35); Ch. 3 “The Founding of the Bureaucratic Empire” (36-55); “Monarchical Institutions” (p. 182); Ch. 5 “The Cosmopolitan Empires”(75-92). Ch. 10 “Goryeo Korea”; Ch. 15 “Joseon Korea”; “Neo-Confucianism” (304).Ch. 1 “China in the Bronze Age” (8-19); Ch. 6 “Early Korea to 935” (98-113); Ch. 7 “Early State and Society in Japan” (114-128).) no outside source allowed!!!!!!

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