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Sun Tzu: A Great Sage Among The Great
The number of great minds that operated during the Warring States Period is simply baffling. There was Confucius and his philosophical successors, notably Mencius...
The Ancient Chinese Visionary Of Legalism, Lord Shang, Used A Simple Pole To Display...
Gongsun Yang, the man who would later become Lord Shang, left the Kingdom of Wei around 361 BCE to join the court of Duke...
The Bizarre Relationship Between Emperor Gaozu And Confucian Scholars
During the short reign of the Qin Dynasty (c. 221-206 BCE), the philosophy of Confucius was pushed to the wayside in preference of legalism....
The Rise And Destruction Of The Legalist, Lord Shang
According to traditional dating, Lord Shang was born in the ancient Chinese state of Wei around 390 BCE. At the time, as he was...
The Tragically Ironic Mercy Of Lord Ding
In 221 BCE, King Zheng of Qin completed his family’s multigenerational conquest of China and became the First Emperor of the Qin Dynasty. Yet,...
Destruction And Censorship Of Education In the Qin Dynasty
Over hundreds of years, the Chinese state of Qin grew more and more powerful under the loose, feudal and relatively weak rule of the...
Han Fei Tzu Was Executed By The Greatest Follower Of His Legalist Government Philosophy
(Portrait of Han Fei Tzu, via Creative Commons)
Around 280 BCE, Han Fei Tzu was born a prince into the Han Kingdom, of central...
Sun Tzu and the Art of War
(Soldiers from the Ming Dynasty Departure Herald, from the Jiajing reign period in China (1522-1566), via Creative Commons)
A Violent Golden Age
The centuries spanning...
