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867: 1364: 373:, he compares their purported strengths and weaknesses in promotion of what he dubs the Daojia, taking the essential points of the others. Neither Tan nor Sima Qian name anyone under them. Likely popular by their time, imperial archivists 280:, called Yaozhi or Essential Points. It discusses the strengths and weakness of six kinds of governance. It did not necessarily occur to Tan that anyone would use them as historical categories, or put people under them. 866: 510:. The Research Centre for Translation. Translated by Watson, Burton (hbk ed.). Hong Kong, ZH; New York, NY: The Chinese University of Hong Kong; Columbia University Press. 408:, earlier referred to by the Zhuangzi as debaters. They have different philosophies. All Han dynasty thought involves yin-yang thinking, even the military has it. 1016: 1045: 411:
Connected with a department of prisons, Fajia comes to mean something like Legalism, which contains Shang Yang and figures Sima Qian had described as
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placed the figures, using them as categories in the imperial library a hundred years after Sima Qians death, connecting them with purported ancient
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go there, or he probably would have either used his father's categories, or at least discussed the figures alongside Shang Yang rather than
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Those later termed Daoists did not early know each other; the first part of the Zhuangzi doesn't demonstrate familiarity with the
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Using the concept of 'Jia', which can mean "family" or "expert", the essay invents the categories of
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around the same time. They become categories of texts in book catalogues, namely the
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would at least seem to represent an actual social category interacted with by the
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Goldin, Paul R. (2011). "Persistent Misconceptions about Chinese "Legalism"".
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Smith, Kidder (2003). "Sima Tan and the Invention of Daoism, "Legalism,"
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What Is Taoism?: And Other Studies in Chinese Cultural History
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This biographical article about a Chinese historian is a
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Records of the Grand Historian of China – Qin Dynasty
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Origins of Moral-political Philosophy in Early China
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He was appointed to the office of Court Astronomer (
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Treatise on Cold Injury and Miscellaneous Disorders
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Index

Chinese name
family name
Sima
BCE
Han dynasty
Hejin
Shanxi
Luoyang
Han dynasty
Sima Xi
Sima Qian
traditional Chinese
simplified Chinese
pinyin
Wade–Giles
BCE
Western Han dynasty
Records of the Grand Historian
Sima Qian
Chinese historiography
I Ching
Daoism
Chinese
pinyin
BCE
Records of the Grand Historian
Sima Qian
zh:封禅
Emperor Han Wudi
fangshi

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