In His Historical Records, Sima Qian Suggests That Wealthy Chinese

question 47

Multiple Choice

In his Historical Records, Sima Qian suggests that wealthy Chinese merchants

• A)applied Confucian principles of morality to their work.
• B)separated their economic life from their moral values.
• C)applied Buddhist principles of enlightenment to their work.
• D)applied neo-Daoist ideas of the beauty of nature to their work.

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Posting

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