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The Chinese were concerned less with issues of control
of others or the environment than with self-control, so
as to minimize friction with others in the family and village
and to make it easier to obey the requirements of the
state, administered by magistrates. The ideal of happiness
was not, as for the Greeks, a life allowing the free exercise
of distinctive talents, but the satisfactions of a plain country life shared within a harmonious social network.
Whereas Greek vases and wine goblets show pictures of
battles, athletic contests, and bacchanalian parties, ancient
Chinese scrolls and porcelains depict scenes of family
activities and rural pleasures.
of others or the environment than with self-control, so
as to minimize friction with others in the family and village
and to make it easier to obey the requirements of the
state, administered by magistrates. The ideal of happiness
was not, as for the Greeks, a life allowing the free exercise
of distinctive talents, but the satisfactions of a plain country life shared within a harmonious social network.
Whereas Greek vases and wine goblets show pictures of
battles, athletic contests, and bacchanalian parties, ancient
Chinese scrolls and porcelains depict scenes of family
activities and rural pleasures.
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