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The greatest travel writer in Chinese tradition, the late-Ming figure Xu Xiake.
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Regarding the great Yuan Dynasty playwright and his most famous play.
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Regarding the historian of institutions Du You and his grandson, the poet Du Mu.
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On the great Song Dynasty philosopher who redefined Confucian thought.
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Regarding the major Qing Dynasty historian Zhang Xuecheng (1738-1801).
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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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