Mohism is best known for the concepts of "impartial care" (Chinese: 兼愛; pinyin: Jian Ai; literally: "inclusive love/care"). This is often translated and popularized as "Universal Love", which is pot ...
The school's best known contributor, Han Fei, synthesized the ideology of earlier proponents and believed that a ruler should use the following three tools to govern his subjects:Fa (法; p 'fǎ', lit. ...
The Taoist book Zhuangzi (simplified Chinese: 庄子; traditional Chinese: 莊子; pinyin: Zhuāngzǐ), named after its purported author Zhuangzi, is a composite of writings from various sources, and is c ...
Main article: Daoism–Taoism romanization issueThe Dai Temple at Mount Tai, one of the holiest mountains in ChinaEnglish-speakers continue to debate the preferred romanization of the words "Daoism" an ...
A key Confucian concept is that in order to govern others one must first govern oneself according to the universal order. When actual, the king's personal virtue (de) spreads beneficent influence thro ...
Strictly speaking, there is no term in Chinese which directly corresponds to "Confucianism". In the Chinese language, the character rú 儒 meaning "scholar" is generally used both in the past and the ...
The Hundred Schools of Thought (simplified Chinese: 诸子百家; traditional Chinese: 諸子百家; pinyin: zhūzǐ bǎijiā; Wade–Giles: chu-tzu pai-chia; literally: "all philosophers hundred schools") wer ...
In the Greco–Roman world of 5th-century European Classical antiquity, the city-state of Sparta was the hegemon of the Peloponnesian League (6th to 4th centuries BCE) and King Philip II of Macedon was ...
The Annals is one of the core Chinese classics and has had an enormous influence on Chinese intellectual discourse for nearly 2500 years. Much of the Annals influence was due to the tradition that Con ...
Qin's power continued growing in the following century after Shang Yang's reform, owing the success to the industriousness of its people. The Qin kings authorized many state development projects, incl ...
According to the 2nd century?bc historical text Records of the Grand Historian by Sima Qian, the Qin state traced its origin to Zhuanxu, one of the Five Emperors in ancient times. One of his descende ...
According to Sima Qian's Records of the Grand Historian, King Wu of Zhou deposed the last Shang king c. 1046 bc and conferred titles to nobles within his domain, including the rulers of the Yan.In the ...
The prosperous Shang dynasty saw its rule filled with many outstanding accomplishments. Notably, the dynasty lasted for a considerable time during which 31 kings ruled over an extended period of 17 ge ...
By the 12th century BCE, Shang influence extended west to the Wei River valley, a region that was occupied by clans known as the Zhou. King Wen of Zhou, the ruler of the Zhou, who was a Shang vassal, ...
Personal name Dan (旦), he was the fourth son of King Wen of Zhou and Queen Tai Si. His eldest brother Bo Yikao predeceased their father (supposedly a victim of cannibalism); the second-eldest defeate ...
