China's Legalists: The Early Totalitarians
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Ancient Legalists
ancient statecraft
Author_Zhengyuan Fu
authoritarian governance
buhai
Category=JPA
Category=QDHC
Chinese Communist Party
Chinese political philosophy
comparative political systems
Daoist School
Emperor Qin Shihuang
empire
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fei
feizi
Guan Zi
han
Han Fei
Han Fei Zi
huang
Huang Lao School
Lao Zi
Late Warring States Period
legal theory development
Li Kui
Mao Zedong
Mo Di
origins of totalitarian thought in China
Orthodox Marxism Leninism
Orthodox Marxist Leninist
penal
Penal Punishment
philosophical discourse analysis
punishment
Qin State
Shangjun Shu
shen
Shen Buhai
Shen Zi
Shi Ji
state
Warring States Period
Wu Qi
Xun Zi
Zhuang Zi
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- ISBN 9781563247804
- Weight: 350g
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 31 Mar 1996
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Inc
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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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.
Educated at Yenching and Peking Universities, Zhengyuan Fu has taught and done research at the Academy of Social Sciences in Beijing, the University of Michigan, Stanford University, and the University of California at Irvine. He was named first Trustee Professor of Chapman University in 1994 and is concurrently a Research Fellow at the Asian Studies Center of The Claremont Institute. He is the author of Autocratic Tradition and Chinese Politics (Cambridge University Press, 1993).
