Concept
Teng (state)
Overview
Teng (Chinese: 滕; pinyin: Téng; 1046–414 BC) was a minor Chinese vassal state that existed during the Spring and Autumn period and the Warring States period, located in the south of modern-day Shandong province. Its territory corresponds to the present-day county-level city of Tengzhou.
Teng's ruling family was the Ji family, with the founder, Shu Xiu of Cuo (錯叔繡), being the 14th brother of King Wu of Zhou. It was conquered and annexed by the Yue state during the reign of Goujian.
Teng was a vassal of the Lu state, and is famed as the birthplace of the Chinese philosopher Mozi and architect Lu Ban. The name of the state survives in both the city of Tengzhou and the Chinese clan name of Teng (滕).
It was conquered by King Zhugou (朱勾) of the Yue state. Then its nobility re-established the country. Finally it was annihilated by King Kang of Song in 297 BC.
Overview adapted from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0; see the article history for authors).
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The military governors of provinces or groups of provinces, who are called Tuchuns, govern despotically in defiance of Peking, and commit depredations on the inhabitants of the districts over which they rule. They intercept the revenue, except the portions collected and administered by foreigners, such as the salt tax.
Bertrand Russell, The Problem of China
States what Teng is.
It was matter of common knowledge that the people of Canton and of the province were bitterly hostile to this outside control and submitted to it only because of military coercion. Civil strife for the expulsion of the outsiders was already going on, continually gaining headway, and a few months later the Kwangsei troops were defeated and expelled from the province by the forces of General Chen, now the civil…
John Dewey, China, Japan and the U.S.A.
Close in meaning to Teng; the term itself is not named.
Naturally, inevitably, the students of political science have been preoccupied with this great historic phenomenon, and their intellectual activities have been directed to its systematic formulation. Because the contemporary progressive movement was to establish the unified state against the inertia of minor social units and against the ambitions of rivals for power, political theory developed the dogma of the…
John Dewey, Reconstruction in Philosophy
Close in meaning to Teng; the term itself is not named.
Philosophers who discussed Teng (state)
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Place in the tradition
Part of Agriculturalism.