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Processed by: | ycandau (2011-05-16 17:47:44 GMT) |
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<< review queue entry 34487 - submitted by 'richwarm' >> It's *not* a generic term ("applying to any member of a group or class" -- Encarta) because you can't say that each of the various schools was a 诸子百家. You can say "Cancer is a generic term for a large group of diseases that can affect any part of the body. " (i.e. each one of those diseases is a cancer) but you can't say "诸子百家 is a generic term for the various schools of thought during the period from pre-Qin times to the early Han Dynasty" (because 道家, for example, can not be said to be a 诸子百家) |
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- 諸子百家 诸子百家 [zhu1 zi3 bai3 jia1] /Hundred Schools of Thought, generic term for the philosophical schools of the Spring and Autumn and Warring States Periods (770-220BC)/ + 諸子百家 诸子百家 [zhu1 zi3 bai3 jia1] /the Hundred Schools of Thought, the various schools of thought and their exponents during the Spring and Autumn and Warring States Periods (770-220BC)/ |