Structural Coordinates of the History of Civilization (Volume II: The Medieval World): A Self-as-an-End Application / 文明史的结构坐标(第二篇:中世):Self-as-an-End框架的文明史应用

Second of four volumes. Covers approximately 500–1500 CE. Examines how the institutional and relational layers fused in depth and how colonization reached its historical peak. The Christian Church's dual identity as institution and relational network, the Chinese examination system's drift from cultivation to colonization, the Tokugawa shogunate's extreme institutionalization, the Mongol Empire as a cross-civilizational node of violent three-layer annihilation, and the Joseon Dynasty as a calibration sample for Confucian colonization saturation are structurally compared within the same coordinate system. Originally written in Chinese; the English version is a rewrite, not a translation.

文明史系列第二篇,覆盖约500年至1500年。追问制度层与关系层何以深度融合、殖民何以达到历史高峰。在同一坐标系中比较基督教会的制度-关系融合殖民、中国科举从涵育到殖民的渐变、德川幕府的极端制度化、蒙古帝国作为三层结构暴力归零的跨文明节点、以及朝鲜王朝作为儒家殖民饱和度的校准样本。中文为原版,英文版为重写而非翻译。

Keywords: Self-as-an-End, history of civilization, three-layer structure, colonization, cultivation, Christian Church, feudalism, Crusades, medieval university, civil-service examination, Neo-Confucianism, Tokugawa, bushidō, Mongol Empire, Joseon Dynasty, colonization saturation

License: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)

Resource type: Preprint

Language: Multiple languages (Chinese original + English rewrite)

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• DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.18898186 (is continuation of) — Volume I: Ancient
• DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.18727327 (is supplemented by this upload) — Paper 3
• DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.18842897 (is supplemented by this upload) — Philosophy-of-History Application
• DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.18898257 (is continued by) — Volume III: Modern
• DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.18898263 (is continued by) — Volume IV: Patterns