Jan 4, 2010
According to his biography in Sima Qian’s Shiji (first century b.c.e.; Records of the Grand Historian of China, 1960, rev. ed. 1993), Hanfeizi (hahn-fay-dzu) was one of several sons from a noble family in the small state of Han. The ruling family of Han had formerly been high ministers in the state of Jin, but they gradually usurped power, divided the territory of Jin with two other noble families, and created three new states, Han, Zhao, and Wei. This event initiated a new era in ancient...
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