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China’s Legalists: The Early Totalitarians

By Zhengyuan Fu

Book information

Publisher
Routledge
Year
1996
ISBN
1563247798, 9781563247798
Language
english
Format
EPUB
Filesize
311 kB (318518 bytes)
Series
New Studies in Asian Culture
Edition
1
Pages
176\0
Time added
2018-01-30 09:24:26
China;Asia;History;Eastern;Buddhism;Indian;Taoism;Used & Rental Textbooks;Specialty Boutique;Philoso

Description

This text discusses the Chinese Legalists, an ancient school of Chinese philosophy which flourished during the Period of the Hundred Contending Schools (6th-3rd century B.C.E.) The school perfected the science of government and art of statecraft to a level that would have greatly impressed Machiavelli. This period and its personalities, as well as a taste of the style and spirit of the Legalists' discourse, are made accessible to the student and general reader, placing into focus the roots of the great Chinese philosophy-as-statecraft tradition. The Legalists - most famously Li Kui, Shang Yang, Shen Buhai, Shen Dao, and Han Fei - had a great impact not only on the institutions and practices of Chinese imperial tradition but also on the Maoist totalitarianism of the People's Republic of China.

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