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Feudalism
Jiangsu People's Publishing House · 2023
This book traces the concept of "fengjian" across time and across Chinese and Western contexts, and is divided into five parts. Part One examines its …
Words as Tallies
Bashu Publishing House · 2024
Laozi said: The Way is highest with nothing above it, deepest with nothing below it; level as the water level, straight as the plumb line, round as th…
Crafty Deployment
Bashu Publishing House · 2024
The sage has three means of governing: the first is benefit, the second is authority, the third is reputation. Benefit is how the people are won, auth…
Distinguishing Things
Bashu Publishing House · 2024
The term bianwu means to distinguish the kinds of things and to discern their circumstances; it comes from the "Tongren" chapter of the Yi (Book of Ch…
The Sovereign
Bashu Publishing House · 2024
Renzhu, a modifier-head compound word, formerly referred specifically to the ruler of a state, that is, the emperor.
The Chapter on Examining Responses
The Commercial Press · 2024
Book One: Scrutinizing Responses. The ruler's utterances and bearing must be carefully examined. A ruler who understands should not wish to speak firs…
Yuan and Qian
Jinzhang Book Company (Jinzhang Shuju) · 2024
Yuanqian is a classic of Chinese learning by Yang Xiong.
Correct Discourse
Jinzhang Book Company (Jinzhang Shuju) · 2024
Those who follow worldly opinion say: "The way of the ruler profits from concealment." This is not so. The ruler is the one who leads the people in so…
Collected Lost Writings on Strategy
Jinzhang Book Company (Jinzhang Shuju) · 2024
Collected Remnants of Strategy is a military law book by Sima Biao.
The Cosmos
Jinzhang Book Company (Jinzhang Shuju) · 2024
The "Zhouhe" chapter of the Guanzi is an extremely important ancient text, much of it written in Warring States idiom and notably difficult to underst…
On Apparent Compliance
Nanhai Publication Company · 2024
Selected from the Lüshi Chunqiu, "Si Shun Lun" (On Apparent Compliance) is a representative chapter of early Chinese syncretic thought.
Treatise on the Middle
Jinzhang Book Company (Jinzhang Shuju) · 2020
Zhonglun (Balanced Discourses) by Xu Gan is a work of political argument belonging to the masters (zi) literature. Its stated aim is that it "mostly e…
An Outline of the Concepts and Categories of Classical Chinese Philosophy — Complete Works of Zhang Dainian (Revised Edition)
Zhonghua Book Company · 2021
This book is the summing-up work of Mr. Zhang Dainian's decades of study and exploration of the system of concepts and categories in classical Chinese…