Chinese mythology, folktales, and literature
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This essay examines Shang Yang’s tragic fate analysed in Han Feizi. Though his Legalist reforms empowered Qin, he lacked political technique and got sacrificed, while his institutions persisted; Han Fei shared similar structural peril.
“Mencius Addressing Dai Busheng” is a dialogue between Mencius and Dai Busheng, a minister of the state of Song during the Warring States period.