China's Legalists: The Early Totalitarians

Name: China's Legalists: The Earliest Totalitarians and Their Art of Ruling
Brand: Routledge
SKU: 9781563247798
Price: 4221.00 INR
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The Earliest Totalitarians and Their Art of Ruling

by Zhengyuan Fu

Routledge · 1996

A study of the Legalists, an ancient school of Chinese philosophy active in the Period of the Hundred Contending Schools. It covers their statecraft and the style of their arguments.

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About this book

The Legalists were one of the schools of thought that flourished in China during the Period of the Hundred Contending Schools, between roughly the sixth and third centuries BCE. Zhengyuan Fu's book explains how this school refined governance and statecraft into something close to a discipline.

The text introduces the period and its leading figures, and conveys how the Legalists wrote and reasoned about rule. It is written so that students can approach the material without prior specialist knowledge of early Chinese thought.

The book will be of interest to students of Chinese philosophy, political theory and the history of government, and to anyone curious about how ancient Chinese thinkers thought about power.

Bibliographic details: published by Routledge, with the ISBN-13 9781563247798.