Kung-chuan Hsiao
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Professor of the History of Chinese Thought, University of Washington, Seattle, 1959β68. Author of Rural China: Imperial Control in the 19th Century.
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Han Feizi was the greatest of Chinaβs Legalist philosophers. His essays on autocratic government so impressed Qin Shi Huang that the future emperor adopted their principles after seizing power in 221 bce. The Hanfeizi, the book named after him, comprises a synthesis of legal theories up to hisβ¦
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