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Top Literature - Datong (367 words) |
 | Alternative meanings of 'Datong': Datong District in Taipei City, or the Chinese ideology of "Great unity" (dàtóng). |
| Datong (Chinese: 大同; pinyin: Dàtóng) is a city in the northern Shanxi Province in China, and is located a few hundred kilometres west by rail from Beijing with an elevation of 1090 meters. |
| The city was renamed Datong in 1048 AD and sacked again at the end of the Ming Dynasty (1649 AD), but promptly rebuilt in 1652 AD. |
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| Datong is to be found not in the afterlife but in a real human community on earth, a community said to have actually existed long before Confuciusâs own time. |
| Datong plays a role in China much like that of freedom in American society: It is a lodestar of Chinese attitudes and thinkingâand is also more prescriptive and all-encompassing than the American idea of liberty. |
| Mao Zedong read the Datong Shu in 1917, when he was 24 years old, and soon after produced an article describing his own prescription for a utopian ânew village.â In 1940, writing in explicitly Confucian terms, he spoke of the need âto eliminate class and to realize datongâ as China developed into a communist society. |
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