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A chapter in the Daoist text Zhuangzi that launches a sustained attack on Confucianism, through the mouth of a notorious criminal.
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Regarding the Han Dynasty physician Zhang Zhongjing.
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Regarding the Song Dynasty architect and scholar of architecture.
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Everyone knows that Shang Yang reformed the laws and institutions of the State of Qin, setting it up for superpower status and paving the way to the Qin Dynasty. But a number of earlier reformers prefigured Shang Yang. Here are two of them.
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The story of the deeply influential Ming Dynasty philosopher.
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The 6th century B.C. statesman of the State of Zheng promulgated the first published criminal code in Chinese history. Moreover, it is through him that we know how the ancient Chinese understood the nature of the soul.
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The hedonist tradition in Chinese philosophy.
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The economic conference of 81 B.C. and the book that resulted from it.
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Regarding the man who made Confucianism the dominant ideology of China.
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On Chai Rong, the second emperor of the Latter Zhou, and how it became the last of the Five Dynasties.
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Our only source for many of the stories about the life of Genghis Khan, The Secret History of the Mongols is a crucial document for understanding the Mongol Empire.
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On the German scholar of Chinese architecture.
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In 627 A.D., an elderly shepherd chanced upon ten stone drums bearing ancient inscriptions. Since then, they have gone on a topsy-turvy adventure through the tumultuous course of Chinese history, down to the present day.
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Only six emperors in Chinese history are documented to have performed Fengshan, the worship of heaven at earth at the holy Mt. Tai.
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Continuing the series on the Five Dynasties, the story of Guo Wei, founder of the Latter Zhou.
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The life of the great 20th century historian Qian Mu.
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On the 2nd century B.C. courtier, jester, and man of letters Dongfang Shuo, who came to be regarded as the patron saint of "xiangsheng," a traditional form of stand-up comedy.
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