Confucianism and Legalism Integration: On the Political Culture of the Qin and Han Dynasties

Author: Han Xing
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Publish Date: 2005-01-01
Features: The integration of Qin and Han political culture is a comprehensive and significant issue in the history of Chinese thought, political history, and legal history. Based on previous research, this book examines the historical facts of political thought, the evolution, differentiation, and integration of socio-political systems, focusing on several key concepts and categories from the intellectual systems of Confucianism and Legalism. It conducts a macro and outline-style study of how Confucian and Legalist thought participated in the political and cultural integration during the transition from the pre-Qin to the Qin and Han periods, and preliminarily explores how these ideologies established the basic political and cultural models for Chinese society in the following two thousand years.