Social+China

=__**Chinese Social**__ =

__ Qin Dynasty __

 * Tyrant type of empire so everyone was consider below the emperor

__ Han Dynasty __
The Emergence of the Scholar-Gentry (Sterns 92).
 * Three Social Strata: scholar gentry; free people, "mean people" (underclass)
 * Scholar-Gentry: ruled lands and was part of the political bureaucracy
 * Literate Shi
 * Ordinary but free subjects
 * Underclass
 * Literate Shi: Powerful families that served the imperial household (Sterns 92).
 * Common People: separate class
 * Mostly Peasants that were farmers

Gender Roles In Han
 * Women
 * Powerful scholar-gentry household women had more freedom and status in the Han period (Sterns 93).
 * <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #dc5d0c; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Widows were permitted to remarry

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #dc5d0c; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Created by: Andrew Thao