Legalism ( Chinese philosophy ) - wikipedia Legalism ( Chinese philosophy ) For other uses, see Legalism ( disambiguation ). Legalism Statue of pivotal reformer Shang Yang Chinese 法 家 Literal meaning The two basic meanings of Fa are `` method '' and `` standard ''. Jia can mean `` school of thought '', but also `` specialist '' or `` expert '', this being the usage that has survived in modern Chinese. Transcriptions Standard Mandarin Hanyu Pinyin Fǎjiā Gwoyeu Romatzyh Faajia Wade -- Giles Fa - chia IPA ( fàtɕjá ) Wu Romanization Fat ga Yue : Cantonese Yale Romanization Faat - gāa Jyutping Faat - gaa Southern Min Tâi - lô Huat - ka Birth places of notable Chinese philosophers from Hundred Schools of Thought in Zhou Dynasty. Philosophers in Legalism are marked by black triangles. 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Roughly meaning `` house of Fa '' ( administrative `` methods '' or `` standards '' ), the `` school '' ( term ) represents some several branches of realistic statesmen or `` men of methods '' ( fashu zishi ) foundational for the traditional Chinese bureaucratic empire. Compared with Machiavelli, it has often been considered in the Western world as akin to the Realpolitikal thought of ancient China. Largely ignoring morality or questions on how a society ideally should function, they examined contemporary government ; emphasizing a realistic consolidation of the wealth and power of autocrat and state, with the goal of achieving increased order, security and stability. Having close ties with the other schools, some would be a major influence on Taoism and Confucianism, and the current remains highly influential in administration, policy and legal practice in China today. Though Chinese administration can not be traced to any one person, emphasizing a merit system administrator Shen Buhai ( c. 400 BC -- c. 337 BC ) may have had more influence than any other, and might be considered its founder, if not valuable as a rare pre-modern example of abstract theory of administration. Sinologist Herrlee G. Creel sees in Shen Buhai the `` seeds of the civil service examination '', and, if one wished to exaggerate, the first political scientist. The correlation between Shen 's conception of the inactive ( Wu wei ) ruler responsible for examination into performance, claims and titles likely also informed the Taoist conception of the formless Tao ( name that can not be named ) that `` gives rise to the ten thousand things. '' Concerned largely with administrative and sociopolitical innovation, Shang Yang ( 390 -- 338 BC ) was a leading reformer of his time. His numerous reforms transformed the peripheral Qin state into a militarily powerful and strongly centralized kingdom. Much of Legalism was `` principally the development of certain ideas '' that lay behind his reforms, and it was these that helped lead to Qin 's ultimate conquest of the other states of China in 221 BC. Shen 's most famous successor Han Fei ( c. 280 -- 233 BC ) synthesized the thought of the other `` Fa - Jia '' in his eponymous text, the Han Feizi. Written around 240 BC, the Han Feizi is commonly thought of as the greatest of all Legalist texts, and is believed to contain the first commentaries on the Tao te Ching in history. The grouping together of thinkers that would eventually be dubbed `` Fa - Jia '' or `` Legalists '' can be traced to him, and The Art of War would seem to incorporate Taoist philosophy of inaction and impartiality, and Legalist punishment and rewards as systematic measures of organization, recalling Han Fei 's concepts of power ( shih ) and tactics ( shu ). Attracting the attention of the First Emperor, It is often said that succeeding emperors followed the template set by Han Fei. Calling them the `` theorists of the state '', sinologist Jacques Gernet considered the Legalists / Fa - Jia to be the most important tradition of the fourth and third centuries BC, the entire period from the Qin dynasty to Tang being characterized by its centralizing tendencies and economic organization of the population by the state. The Han dynasty took over the governmental institutions of the Qin dynasty almost unchanged. Endorsement for the `` school '' of thought peaked under Mao Zedong, hailed as a `` progressive '' intellectual current. Contents 1 Historical background 1.1 Administrative Realpolitik 2 Guan Zhong and Mozi 2.1 Mohist Hermeneutics 2.2 `` Legalist '' Administration 3 Branches 3.1 Shang Yang ( 390 -- 338 BC ) 3.1. 1 Anti-Confucianism 3.2 Shen Buhai ( 400 -- c. 337 BC ) 3.2. 1 Shu or `` Technique '' 3.2. 2 Name and reality ( Ming - shih ) 3.2. 3 Wu wei ( non-action ) 3.2. 3.1 Yin ( passive mindfulness ) 4 Shen Dao ( 350 -- c. 275 BC ) 4.1 Doctrine of Position ( Shih ) 4.1. 1 Shen Dao 4.1. 2 Han Fei 5 Han Fei ( 280 -- 233 BC ) 5.1 Performance and title ( Xing - Ming ) 5.1. 1 The `` Two Handles '' 5.2 Wu wei 6 Enlightened absolutism 7 Fall 8 Later influences ( Xing - Ming ) 9 Imperial China 9.1 Han dynasty 9.2 Post Han 9.3 Ming dynasty 10 Modern 10.1 As Realists 11 References 12 Sources 13 External links Historical background Further information : Warring States period The Zhou dynasty was divided between the masses and the hereditary noblemen. The latter were placed to obtain office and political power, owing allegiance to the local prince, who owed allegiance to the Son of Heaven. The dynasty operated according to the principles of Li and punishment. The former was applied only to aristocrats, the latter only to commoners. The earliest Zhou kings kept a firm personal hand on the government, depending on their personal capacities, personal relations between ruler and minister, and upon military might. The technique of centralized government being so little developed, they deputed authority to feudal lords. When the Zhou kings could no longer grant new fiefs, their power began to decline, vassals began to identify with their own regions, and schismatic hostility occurred between the Chinese states. Aristocratic families became very important, by virtue of their ancestral prestige wielding great power and proving a divisive force. In the Spring and Autumn ( 771 -- 476 BC ) period, rulers began to directly appoint state officials to provide advice and management, leading to the decline of inherited privileges and bringing fundamental structural transformations as a result of what may be termed `` social engineering from above. '' Most Warring States period thinkers tried to accommodate a `` changing with the times '' paradigm, and each of the schools of thought sought to provide an answer for the attainment of sociopolitical stability. Confucianism, commonly considered to be China 's ruling ethos, was articulated in opposition to the establishment of legal codes, the earliest of which were inscribed on bronze vessels in the sixth century BC. For the Confucians, the Classics provided the preconditions for knowledge. Orthodox Confucians tended to consider organizational details beneath both minister and ruler, leaving such matters to underlings, and furthermore wanted ministers to control the ruler. Concerned with `` goodness '', the Confucians became the most prominent, followed by the ( proto ) Taoists and the administrative thought that Sima Tan termed the Fa - Jia. But the Taoists focused on the development of inner powers, and both the Taoists and Confucians held a regressive view of history, the age being a decline from the era of the Zhou kings. A new type of ruler emerged intent on breaking the power of the aristocrats and reforming their state 's bureaucracies. Those that failed were conquered or deposed. As disenfranchised or opportunist aristocrats were increasingly attracted by the reform - oriented rulers, they brought with them philosophy concerned foremost with organizational methodology. Successful reforms made the so - called `` Fa - Jia '' significant, promoting the rapid growth of the Qin state that applied reforms most thoroughly. The goal of the Fa - Jia ruler was conquest and unification of all under heaven ( or in the case of Shen Buhai at least defense ), and the writings of Han Fei and other Fa - Jia are almost purely practical, eschewing ethics in favour of strategy teaching the ruler techniques ( shu ) to survive in a competitive world through administrative reform : strengthening the central government, increasing food production, enforcing military training, or replacing the aristocracy with a bureaucracy. Han Fei 's prince must make use of Fa, surround himself with an aura of wei ( majesty ) and shi ( authority, power, influence ), and make use of the art ( shu ) of statecraft. The ruler who follows Tao moves away from benevolence and righteousness, and discards reason and ability, subduing the people through Fa ( statutes ). Only an absolute ruler can restore the world. Rather than aristocratic fiefs, Qin territory came under the direct control of the Qin rulers, directly appointing officials on the basis of their qualifications. With the state of Qin conquering all the Warring States and founding the `` first '' Chinese empire in 221 BC, the Fa - Jia had succeeded in propelling state centralization and laying the foundations of Chinese bureaucracy, establishing `` efficient and effective '' codes that `` became the pattern for Chinese politics for the next two millennia. '' The philosophies of the reformers fell with the Qin, but tendencies remained in the supposedly Confucian imperial government, and the Han Feizi would be studied by rulers in every dynasty. Administrative realpolitik The key figure in the bureaucracy that ran China was the district magistrate. A combination of mayor, chief of police, judge, and even military commander. He obtained the position by first doing well in the examination for the civil service and then performing well in administrative positions at a lower level. He was assisted in his duties by a staff of lower level officials, some his own employees who moved with him from place to place, some permanently located in the district. Any penalty a magistrate imposed more serious than bambooing had to be approved at the provincial level, any decision not based on statute, including a decision by analogy, required approval from Peking. Drawing by William Alexander, draughtsman of the Macartney Embassy to China in 1793. Named for an interpretation of Shang Yang, so - called Legalists were concerned not even mainly with law, but with administration. Though the syncretic Han Feizi speaks on what may be termed law, like Shen Buhai it is much more concerned with `` the role of the ruler and the means by which he may control a bureaucracy. '' It has implications for the work of judges, but `` contains no explicit judicial theory '', and is motivated `` almost totally from the ruler 's point of view. '' Even the more `` Legalistic '' Book of Lord Shang engages statutes more from an administrative standpoint, as well as addressing many other administrative questions. Feng Youlan and Liang Qichao describe the elements of the Fa - Jia as Fa ( often translated as law, but closer to `` standards '' or `` method '' ), authority or power ( Shih ), and `` technique '' ( Shu ), that is, statecraft or `` the art of conducting affairs and handling men. '' Liang Qichao considers the inability to achieve a radical reform of the legislative authority to be the greatest failure of the Fa - Jia, with Shih and Shu, being a government by men, contradicting rule of law. In order to have a government of law, it has to proceed from something like a constitution. Modern Chinese often see the Fa - Jia as autocratic and otherwise lacking a substantial rule of law, though this must be qualified. Shen Buhai and Han Fei considered the ruler to be in a situation of constant danger from his aides, and the target of Han Fei 's standards in particular are the scholarly bureaucracy and ambitious advisers -- the Confucians. Saying that `` superior and inferior fight a hundred battles a day '', long sections of the Han Feizi provide example of how ministers undermined various rules, and focus on how the ruler can protect himself against treacherous ministers, emphatically emphasizing their mutually different interests. Though not exceptional, Sinologist Yuri Pines considers this selfish view of human nature to be a pillar of the Fa - Jia, and a number of chapters of the Book of Lord Shang consider men naturally evil. The Fa - Jia are therefore distinct from the Confucians ( apart from their emphasis on Fa ) in dismissing the possibility of reforming the elite, that being the ruler and ministers, or driving them by moral commitment. Every member of the elite pursues his own interests. Preserving and strengthening the ruler 's authority against these may be considered the Fa - Jia 's `` singularly pronounced political commitment ''. On rare occasions, Han Fei lauds such qualities as benevolence and proper social norms. With due consideration for the times they were living in however, the Fa - Jia did not believe that the moral influence or virtue of the ruler was powerful enough to create order. Considering the power struggle between ruler and minister irreconcilable, and focusing on the prevention of evil rather than the promotion of good, the Fa - Jia largely rejected the utility of both virtue and the Confucian rule of man, insisting on impersonal norms and regulations in their relations. Their approach of was therefore primarily at the institutional level, aiming for a clear power structure, consistently enforced rules and regulations, and in the Han Feizi, engaging in sophisticated manipulation tactics to enhance power bases. The authority to make policy is a basic difference between Confucianism and the Fa - Jia. Proposing a return to feudal ideals, albeit his nobleman being anyone who possessed virtue, Confucians granted authority to `` wise and virtuous ministers '', allowed to `` govern as they saw fit ''. Shen Buhai and Shang Yang monopolized policy in the hands of the ruler, and Qin administrative documents focus on rigorous control of local officials, and the keeping of written records. Distinguished by their anti-ministerial stance, the Fa - JIa rejected their Confucian contemporaries espousal of a regime based solely on the charisma of the aristocrats, much of their doctrines seeking self - regulating and mechanically reliable, if not foolproof means to control or otherwise dispense with officials administering the state. Reducing the human element, the first of these is the universally applicable Fa. Viewed as within the domain of the Emperor and his officials, who were responsible for all alterations, the development of a legal profession would be illegal or otherwise unknown, with lawyers described as litigation tricksters, pettifoggers, tigers, wolves or demons. Confucians, on the other hand, left civil matters to custom, emphasizing `` spiritual cultivation. '' This dualism may be compared to Roman continental law, which the late Qing dynasty and the Kuomintang used in their reforms, and which sought the security of the position of the Emperor and territorial integrity and was based on the two authorities of state over citizen and family over dependent. Lacking modern resources, the Chinese did not distinguish law from administration even under the Maoists. Administrative justice was always an aspect of `` executive '', general administration. Moreover, even at the local level, and even if the cultural framework for much in the way of individual rights existed ( it emphasized family ), Fa, or its minimalist government, could not expected to administer much in the way of individual rights or social regulation, let alone from an imperial level. Chinese rulers believed that wise emperors governed their officials rather than their subjects. Guan Zhong and Mozi Between Mozi 's background as an engineer and his pacifist leanings, the Mohists became experts at building fortifications and sieges. Small seal scripts were standardized by Li Si after the First Emperor of China after he gained control of the country, evolving from the larger seal scripts of previous dynasties. The 12 characters on this slab of floor brick affirm that it is an auspicious moment for the First Emperor to ascend the throne, as the country is united and no men will be dying along the road. R. Eno of Indiana University writes that `` If one were to trace the origins of Legalism as far back as possible, it might be appropriate to date its beginnings to the prime ministership of Guan Zhong ( 720 -- 645 BC ) '', who `` may be seen as the source of the notion that good government involved skilled systems design. '' The reforms of Guan Zhong applied levies and economic specializations at the village level instead of the aristocracy, and shifted administrative responsibility to professional bureaucrats. He valued education. Guan Zhong and later Mozi recommended objective, reliable, easily used, publicly accessible standards, or models, opposing what Sinologist Chad Hansen terms the `` cultivated intuition of self - admiration societies '', expert at chanting old texts. For Guan Zhong, Fa could complement any traditional scheme, and he uses Fa alongside the Confucian Li ( the unique principles or standards of things, being their determinant and differentiating them ), which he still valued. What Fa made possible was the accurate following of instructions. With minimal training, anyone can use Fa to perform a task or check results. In principle, if their roots in Guan Zhong and Mozi are considered, the Legalists might all be said to use Fa in the same ( administrative ) fashion. The Mohists advocated a unified, utilitarian ethical and political order, posting some of its first theories and initiating philosophical debate in China. To unify moral standards, they supported a `` centralized, authoritarian state led by a virtuous, benevolent sovereign managed by a hierarchical, merit - based bureaucracy ''. That social order is paramount seems to be implicit, recognized by all. They argued against nepotism, and, as with the later Fa `` philosophers '', for universal standards ( or meritocracy ) as represented by the centralized state, saying `` If one has ability, then he is promoted. If he has no ability, then he is demoted. Promoting public justice and casting away private resentments -- this is the meaning of such statements. '' Often compared with Plato, the hermeneutics of the Mohists contained the philosophical germs of what Sima - Tan would term the `` Fa - School '' ( `` Legalists '' ), contributing to the political thought of contemporary reformers. The Mohists and the Guanzi text attributed to Guan Zhong are of particular importance to understanding Fa, meaning `` to model on '' or `` to emulate ''. Dan Robins of the University of Hong Kong considers Fa to have become `` important in early Chinese philosophy largely because of the Mohists ''. Of particular concern for the Fa - Jia and the Mohists, the fourth century witnessed the emergence of discussions polarizing the concepts of self and private, commonly used in conjunction with profit and associated with fragmentation, division, partiality, and one - sidelines, with that of the state and `` public '', represented by the duke and referring to what is official or royal, that is, the ruler himself, associated with unity, wholeness, objectivity, and universality. The later denotes the `` Universal Way ''. Legalism and Mohism are distinguished by this effort to obtain objectivity. Mohist hermeneutics Mohist and Legalist thought is not based on entities, transcendentals or universals, but parts or roles ( `` names '' ), and are therefore relatable to the Confucian rectification of names, which arguably originates in Mozi 's development of Fa. For the most part Confucianism does not elaborate on Fa ( though Han Confucians embraced Fa as an essential element in administration ), though the idea of norms themselves being older, Fa is theoretically derived from the Confucian Li. Rejecting the Confucian idea of parents as a moral model as particular and unreliable, the driving idea of the Mohists was the use of Hermeneutics to find objective models / standards ( Fa ) for ethics and politics, as was done in any practical field, to order or govern society. These were primarily practical rather than principles or rules, as in the square and plumb - line. The Mohists used Fa as `` objective, particularly operational or measurement - like standards for fixing the referents of names '', hoping that analysis of language standards ( Fa ) would yield some objective way ( dao ) of moral reform. For Mozi, if language is made objective, then language itself could serve as a source of information and argued that in any dispute of distinctions, one party must be right and one wrong. While other terms might denote mere command, in comparison to the Western concept of law, the essential characteristic of Fa is measurement. Mozi considered the elucidation of different `` types '' or `` classes '' to be the basis of both cognitive thinking and sociopolitical practice. Referring to an easily projectable standard of utility, the Guanzi Mohists explain `` Fa '' as compasses or circles, and may be prototypes, exemplars, or ( specific ) analogies. Fa is never merely arbitrary or the ruler 's desire, nor does it aim at an intellectual grasp of a definition or principle, but the practical ability to perform a task ( dao ) successfully, or to `` do something correctly in practice '' -- and in particular, to be able distinguish various kinds of things from one another. Measuring to determine whether distinctions have been drawn properly, Fa compares something against itself, and judges whether the two are similar, just as with the use of the compass or the L - square. What matches the standard is then the particular object, and thus correct. This constituted the basic conception of Mohist 's practical reasoning and knowledge. Mozi said, `` Those in the world who perform tasks can not do without models ( Fa ) and standards. There is no one who can accomplish their task without models and standards. Even officers serving as generals or ministers, they all have models ; even the hundred artisans performing their tasks, they too all have models. The hundred artisans make squares with the set square, circles with the compass, straight lines with the string, vertical lines with the plumb line, and flat surfaces with the level. Whether skilled artisans or unskilled artisans, all take these five as models. The skilled are able to conform to them. The unskilled, though unable to conform to them, by following them in performing their tasks still surpass what they can do by themselves. Thus the hundred artisans in performing their tasks all have models to measure by. Now, for the greatest to order ( zhi, also ' govern ' ) the world and those the next level down to order great states without models to measure by, this is to be less discriminating than the hundred artisans. '' `` Legalist '' administration Despite the framing of Han historians, the Fa - Jia did not seem to think they were using Fa differently than anyone else, and the influence of the Mohists is likely strong. All of the Fa - Jia would adopt its usage. Though Harvard Professor Masayuki Sato translates Fa as law, he explains the concept as more like an objective measuring device. Sinologist Mark Edward Lewis writes : language, such as that of a legal code, is linked to social control. If words are not correct, they do not correspond to reality, and regulation fails. `` Law '' is `` purified '', rectified, or technically regulated language. For Shen Buhai, correct or perverse words will order or ruin the state. Han Fei may also have borrowed his views on human nature from the Mohists. Han Fei credits Shang Yang with the practice of Fa in statecraft, to which Shang Yang and Han Fei intended their `` legal codes '' ( Fa ) be as `` self - interpreting '' ( Hansen ). Shang Yang 's systematic application of penalties increase the tendency to see it as penal, but arguably does not change meaning from that of the Mohists. Shang Yang 's innovation was not penal law. Rather, Shang Yang 's idea was that penal codes should be reformed to have the same kind of objectivity, clarity and accessibility as the craft - linked instruments. Contrasting Fa with private distortions and behavior, theoretically, their Fa exactly follows Mozi. Shang Yang was supposedly taught by a Confucian syncretist, Shi Jiao, who, stressing the importance of `` name '' ( rectification of names ), connected it with reward and punishment. Applied to economy and institution, Shang Yang 's Fa is total and anti-bureaucratic, calculating rank mathematically from the adherence to standards ( Fa ) in the performance of roles ( models ), namely that of soldiers and ( to a lesser extent ) farmers. Han Fei shows no revolutionary insight into rules ; objectively - determined `` models '' ( Fa ) or `` names '' ( titles / roles ), being measured against, replace intuitive guidance, especially that of the ruler. It is these that enable control of a bureaucracy. Carine Defoort of New York university explains : `` Names are orders : by manipulating a network of names from his polar position, the ruler keeps everything under control. While his orders descend step by step through the official hierarchy to the furthest corners of the realm, performances ascend to be checked by him. '' Because Fa is necessary for articulating administrative terms, it is presupposed in any application of punishment, and Han Fei stressed measurement - like links between rewards and punishments and performance. Applied through incentives and disincentives, Fa provided guidance for behaviour, the performance of civil and military roles, and advancement. An example of excavated Qin texts consists of twenty - five abstract model patterns guiding procedure, based on actual situations. Branches Less well defined compared to Confucianism and Mohism, it is unclear when the Fa - Jia came to be regarded as an intellectual faction, only forming a complex of ideas around the time of Li Si ( 280 -- 208 BC ), elder advisor to the First Emperor. While the earliest Legalistic act can be traced to Zichan ( and with him Deng Xi ), Chinese scholar K.C. Hsiao and Sinologist Herrlee G. Creel considered the Fa - jia to have stemmed from two disparate contemporary thinkers, as described by Han Fei : Now Shen Buhai spoke about the need of Shu ( `` Technique '' ) and Shang Yang practices the use of Fa ( `` Standards '' ). What is called Shu is to create posts according to responsibilities, hold actual services accountable according to official titles, exercise the power over life and death, and examine into the abilities of all his ministers ; these are the things that the ruler keeps in his own hand. Fa includes mandates and ordinances promulgated to the government offices, penalties that are definite in the mind of the people, rewards that are due to the careful observers of standards, and punishments that are inflicted upon those who violate orders. It is what the subjects and ministers take as a model. If the ruler is without Shu he will be overshadowed ; if the subjects and ministers lack Fa they will be insubordinate. Thus, neither can be dispensed with : both are implements of emperors and kings. In contrast to Shen Buhai and the old feudalism, Shang or Gongsun Yang considered there to be no single model of rule in the past, and everything changeable as a product of changing conditions, Gongsun held decline to have resulted from a scarcity of resources, prescribing statecraft. Questioning traditional rule and the relevance of the past to the present, the first chapter of the Book of Lord Shang cites Gongsun as saying : `` Orderly generations did not ( follow ) a single way ; to benefit the state, one need not imitate antiquity ''. Distinguished by his heavy emphasis on penalty and mutual responsibility ( among both minister and population ), he instituted severe punishment for the Qin ( later reduced ). Gongsun ultimately did not believe that the method of rule really mattered as long as the state was rich, and tried to dispense with the selection of exceptional men through insurance mechanisms while attacking moral discussion as empowering ministers. His anti-bureaucracy may be seen as a precursor to that of Han Fei, and together with their predecessor Mozi may be characterized as following a philosophical tradition of `` objective, public, accessible standards '' ( Fa ). The Shang Yang school was favored, though not exclusively, by Emperor Wu of Han. On the other hand, the Shen Buhai branch sometimes even opposed punishments. Han Fei combined the branches. This combination is commonly known as the Fa - Jia. Because, historically, the branches did not endorse each other 's views, Creel often called the Shen Buhai group `` administrators '', `` methodists '' or `` technocrats. '' The Cambridge History of China nominally accepts this division, but Shen Buhai is still not widely precluded from the use of the term `` Legalist '', Han Fei calling both the `` instruments of Kings and Emperors '' and Li Si praised them equally, finding no contradiction between them. Sinologist Chad Hansen describes their difference thusly : `` Shen Buhai 's shu ( '' techniques `` ) limit the ministers influence on the ruler ; Shang Yang 's fa controls their power over the people. '' The scholar Shen Dao ( 350 -- c. 275 BC ) covered a `` remarkable '' quantity of Legalist and Taoistic themes. Incorporated into the Han Feizi and The Art of War, he nonetheless lacked a recognizable group of followers. Shang Yang ( 390 -- 338 BC ) Small bronze plaque containing an edict from the second emperor of the Qin dynasty. 209 BC. Terracotta Army Hailing from Wei, as Prime Minister of the State of Qin Shang Yang or Gongsun Yang engaged in a `` comprehensive plan to eliminate the hereditary aristocracy ''. Drawing boundaries between private factions and the central, royal state, he took up the cause of meritocratic appointment, stating `` Favoring one 's relatives is tantamount to using self - interest as one 's way, whereas that which is equal and just prevents selfishness from proceeding. '' As the first of his accomplishments, historiographer Sima Qian accounts Gongsun as having divided the populace into groups of five and ten, instituting a system of mutual responsibility tying status entirely to service to the state. It rewarded office and rank for martial exploits, going to far as to organize women 's militias for siege defense. The second accomplishment listed is forcing the populace to attend solely to agriculture ( or women cloth production, including a possible sewing draft ) and recruiting labour from other states. He abolished the old fixed landholding system ( Fengjian ) and direct primogeniture, making it possible for the people to buy and sell ( usufruct ) farmland, thereby encouraging the peasants of other states to come to Qin. The recommendation that farmers be allowed to buy office with grain was apparently only implemented much later, the first clear - cut instance in 243 BC. Infanticide was prohibited. Gongsun deliberately produced equality of conditions amongst the ruled, a tight control of the economy, and encouraged total loyalty to the state, including censorship and reward for denunciation. Law was what the sovereign commanded, and this meant absolutism, but it was an absolutism of law as impartial and impersonal. Gongsun discouraged arbitrary tyranny or terror as destroying law. Emphasizing knowledge of the Fa among the people, he proposed an elaborate system for its distribution to allow them to hold ministers to it. He considered it the most important device for upholding the power of the state. Insisting that it be made known and applied equally to all, posting it on pillars erected in the new capital. In 350, along with the creation of the new capital, a portion of Qin was divided into thirty - one counties, each `` administered by a ( presumably centrally appointed ) magistrate ''. This was a `` significant move toward centralizing Ch'in administrative power '' and correspondingly reduced the power of hereditary landholders. Gongsun considered the sovereign to be a culmination in historical evolution, representing the interests of state, subject and stability. Objectivity was a primary goal for him, wanting to be rid as much as possible of the subjective element in public affairs. The greatest good was order. History meant that feeling was now replaced by rational thought, and private considerations by public, accompanied by properties, prohibitions and restraints. In - order to have prohibitions, it is necessary to have executioners, hence officials, and a supreme ruler. Virtuous men are replaced by qualified officials, objectively measured by Fa. The ruler should rely neither on his nor his officials ' deliberations, but on the clarification of Fa. Everything should be done by Fa, whose transparent system of standards will prevent any opportunities for corruption or abuse. Shang Yang also corrected measures and weights. Anti-confucianism While Shen Buhai and Shen Dao 's current may not have been hostile to Confucius, Shang Yang and Han Fei emphasize their rejection of past models as unverifiable if not useless ( `` what was appropriate for the early kings is not appropriate for modern rulers '' ). In the west, past scholars have argued that Shang Yang sought to establish the supremacy of what some have termed positive law at the expense of customary or `` natural '' law. Han Fei argued that the age of Li had given way to the age of Fa, with natural order giving way to social order and finally political order. Together with that of Xun Kuang, their sense of human progress and reason guided the Qin dynasty. Intending his Dao ( way of government ) to be both objective and publicly projectable, Han Fei argued that disastrous results would occur if the ruler acted on arbitrary, ad - hoc decision making, such as that based on relationships or morality which, as a product of reason, are `` particular and fallible ''. Li, or Confucian customs, and rule by example are also simply too ineffective. The ruler can not act on a case - by - case basis, and so must establish an overarching system, acting through Fa ( administrative methods or standards ). Fa is not partial to the noble, does not exclude ministers, and does not discriminate against the common people. Linking the `` public '' sphere with justice and objective standards, for Han Fei, the private and public had always opposed each other. Taking after Shang Yang he lists the Confucians among his `` five vermin '', and calls the Confucian teaching on love and compassion for the people the `` stupid teaching '' and `` muddle - headed chatter '', the emphasis on benevolence an `` aristocratic and elitist ideal '' demanding that `` all ordinary people of the time be like Confucius ' disciples ''. Moreover, he dismisses it as impracticable, saying that `` In their settled knowledge, the literati are removed from the affairs of the state... What can the ruler gain from their settled knowledge ? '', and points out that `` Confucianism '' is not a unified body of thought. Shen Buhai ( 400 -- c. 337 BC ) Han state bronze candle holder The basic structure and operation of the traditional Chinese state was not `` legalistic '' as the term is commonly understood. Though persisting, pre-modern mainstream Chinese thinking never really accepted the role of law and jurisprudence or the Shang Yang wing of the Fa - Jia. The Fa - Jia 's most important contribution lies in the organization and regulation of centralized, bureaucratic government. Sinologist Creel called its philosophy administrative for lack of a better term, considering it to have been founded by Shen Buhai ( 400 -- 337 BC ), who likely played an `` outstanding role in the creation of the traditional Chinese system of government ''. Shen was chancellor of Han for fifteen years ( 354 -- 337 BC ). The Huainanzi says that when Shen lived the officials of the state of Han were at cross-purposes and did not know what practices to follow ; the legal system of Han was apparently confused, prohibiting uniform reward and punishment. Is is not surprising then that no text identifies Shen Buhai with penal law. We have no basis to suppose that Shen advocated the doctrine of rewards and punishment ( of Shang Yang, as Han Fei did ), and Han Fei criticizes him for not unifying the laws. A teacher of Legalist Li Kui, the Confucian Bu Shang is cited for the principle of favouring talents over favouritism, becoming under the Mohists the principle of `` elevating the worthy and employing ability. '' Adhering thereto, Shen utilized the same category of method ( Fa ) as others of the Fa - Jia, but emphasized its use in secrecy for purposes of investigation and personnel control, concerning himself with methods ( Fa ) of ( impersonal bureaucratic ) administration ( namely methods of appointment and performance measurement ) or the ruler 's role in the control thereof. What Shen appears to have realized is that the `` methods for the control of a bureaucracy '' could not be mixed with the survivals of feudal government, or staffed merely by `` getting together a group of ' good men ' '', but rather must be men qualified in their jobs. He therefore emphasizes the importance of selecting able officials as much as Confucius did, but insists on `` constant vigilance over their performance '', never mentioning virtue. Well aware of the possibility of the loss of the ruler 's position, and thus state or life, from said officials, Shen says : One who murders the ruler and takes his state, '' Shen says, `` does not necessarily climb over difficult walls or batter in barred doors or gates. He may be one of the ruler 's own ministers, gradually limiting what the ruler sees, restricting what he hears, getting control of his government and taking over his power to command, possessing the people and seizing the state. '' Compared with Shang Yang, Shen Buhai refers to the ruler in abstract terms : he is simply the head of a bureaucracy. In comparison with Han Fei though his system still required a strong ruler at the centre, emphasizing that he trust no one minister. Ideally, Shen Buhai 's ruler had the widest possible sovereignty, was intelligent ( if not a sage ), had to make all crucial decisions himself, and had unlimited control of the bureaucracy. Shen largely recommended that rulers investigate their ministers ' performance, checking his ministers ' reports while remaining calm and secretive ( Wu wei ). The ruler promotes and demotes according to the match between ' performance ' and proposal ( Xing Ming ). Shen Buhai insisted that the ruler must be fully informed on the state of his realm, but could n't afford to get caught up in details and was advised to listen to no one. Listening to his courtiers might interfere with promotions, and he does not, as Sinologist Herrlee G. Creel says, have the time to do so. The way to see and hear independently is the grouping together of particulars into categories using mechanical or operational method ( Fa ). On the contrary the ruler 's eyes and hears will make him `` deaf and blind '' ( unable to obtain accurate information ). Seeing and hearing independently, the ruler is able to make decisions independently, and is, Shen says, able to rule the world thereby. Shu or `` technique '' The earliest known written documentation for the Chinese abacus, the Suan Pan, dates to the 2nd century BC ( its original design is unknown ). Apart from Shang Yang 's doctrine of penalties and mutual spying and denouncement among ministers, Han Fei recommends the ruler should protect himself through careful employment of doctrines that had earlier been recommended by Shen Buhai. Because Fa has diverse meaning, for clarification Shen Buhai 's successors often used the term Shu ( technique ) for his administrative method ( Fa ) and other techniques ( such as `` Wu - wei '' ), and thus 20th century philosopher Feng Youlan called Shen the leader of the group ( in the Legalist school ) emphasizing Shu, or techniques of government. Liu Xiang wrote that Shen Buhai advised the ruler of men use technique ( shu ) rather than punishment, relying on persuasion to supervise and hold responsible, though very strictly. Shu or Technique can easily be considered the most crucial element in controlling a bureaucracy. Shen 's doctrines are described as concerned almost exclusively with the `` ruler 's role and the methods by which he may control a bureaucracy '' ; that is, its management and personnel control : the selection of capable ministers, their performance, the monopolization of power, and the control of and power relations between ruler and minister which he characterized as Wu Wei. The emphasis however is on `` scrutinizing achievement and on that ground alone to give rewards, and to bestow office solely on the basis of ability. '' Sinologist John Makeham characterizes Shu as `` the agency of several checking systems that together constituted Method ( Fa ) '', whose central principle is accountability. Creel believed the term originally had the sense of numbers, with implicit roots in statistical or categorizing methods, using record keeping in financial management as a numerical measure of accomplishment. He notes that command of finance was generally held by the head of government from the beginning of the Zhou dynasty ; an example of auditing dates to 800 BC, and the practice of annual accounting solidified by the Warring States period and budgeting by the first century BC. In the Guanzi the artisan 's Shu is explicitly compared to that of the good ruler. The History of the Han ( Han shu ) lists texts for Shu as devoted to `` calculation techniques '' and `` techniques of the mind '', and describes the Warring States period as a time when the shu arose because the complete tao had disappeared. Hsu Kai ( 920 -- 974 AD ) calls Shu a branch in, or components of, the great Tao, likening it to the spokes on a wheel. He defines it as `` that by which one regulates the world of things ; the algorithms of movement and stillness. '' Mastery of techniques was a necessary element of sagehood. Another example of Shu is Chuan - shu, or `` political maneuvering ''. The concept of Ch'uan, or `` weighing '' figures in Legalist writings from very early times. It also figures in Confucian writings as at the heart of moral action, including in the Mencius and the Doctrine of the Mean. Weighing is contrasted with `` the standard ''. Life and history often necessitate adjustments in human behavior, which must suit what is called for at a particular time. It always involves human judgement. A judge that has to rely on his subjective wisdom, in the form of judicious weighing, relies on Ch'uan. The Confucian Zhu Xi, who was notably not a restorationist, emphasized expedients as making up for incomplete standards or methods. Name and reality ( Ming - shih ) `` The Way of Listening is to be giddy as though soused. Be dumber and dumber. Let others deploy themselves, and accordingly I shall know them. '' Right and wrong whirl around him like spokes on a wheel, but the sovereign does not complot. Emptiness, stillness, non-action -- these are the characteristics of the Way. By checking and comparing how it accords with reality, ( one ascertains ) the `` performance '' of an enterprise. Han Fei Detail of The Spinning Wheel, by Chinese artist Wang Juzheng, Northern Song Dynasty ( 960 -- 1279 ) A contemporary of Confucius, the logician Deng Xi ( died 501 BC ) was cited by Liu Xiang for the origin of the principle of Xing - Ming. Serving as a minor official in the state of Zheng, he is reported to have drawn up a code of penal laws. Associated with litigation, he is said to have argued for the permissibility of contradictory propositions, likely engaging in hair - splitting debates on the interpretation of laws, legal principles and definitions. Shen Buhai solves this through Wu wei, or not getting involved, making an official 's words his own responsibility. Shen Buhai says, `` The ruler controls the policy, the ministers manage affairs. To speak ten times and ten times be right, to act a hundred times and a hundred times succeed -- this is the business of one who serves another as minister ; it is the not the way to rule. '' The correlation between Wu - wei and Xing - Ming likely informed the Taoist conception of the formless Tao that `` gives rise to the ten thousand things. '' In the Han Dynasty secretaries of government who had charge of the records of decisions in criminal matters were called Xing - Ming, which Sima Qian ( 145 or 135 -- 86 BC ) and Liu Xiang ( 77 -- 6 BC ) attributed to the doctrine of Shen Buhai ( 400 -- c. 337 BC ). Liu Xiang goes as far as to define Shen Buhai 's doctrine as Xing - Ming. Shen actually used an older, more philosophically common equivalent, ming - shih, linking the `` Legalist doctrine of names '' with the name and reality ( ming shih ) debates of the school of names -- another school evolving out of the Mohists. Such discussions are also prominent in the Han Feizi, and the earliest literary occurrence for Xing - Ming, in the Zhan Guo Ce, is also in reference to the school of names. Ming ( `` name '' ) sometimes has the sense of speech -- so as to compare the statements of an aspiring officer with the reality of his actions -- or reputation, again compared with real conduct ( xing `` form '' or shih `` reality '' ). Two anecdotes by Han Fei provide examples : The Logician Ni Yue argued that a white horse is not a horse, and defeated all debaters, but was still tolled at the gate. In another, the chief minister of Yan pretended to see a white horse dash out the gate. All of his subordinates denied having seen anything, save one, who ran out after it and returned claiming to have seen it, and was thereby identified as a flatterer. Shen Buhai 's personnel control, or rectification of names ( such as titles ) worked thereby for `` strict performance control '' ( Hansen ) correlating claims, performances and posts. It would become a central tenant of both Legalist statecraft and its Huang - Lao derivatives. Rather than having to look for `` good '' men, ming - shih or xing - ming can seek the right man for a particular post, though doing so implies a total organizational knowledge of the regime. More simply though, it can allow ministers to `` name '' themselves through accounts of specific cost and time frame, leaving their definition to competing ministers. Claims or utterances `` bind the speaker to the realization a job ( Makeham ) ''. This was the doctrine, with subtle differences, favoured by Han Fei. Favoring exactness, it combats the tendency to promise too much. The correct articulation of Ming is considered crucial to the realization of projects. In Chinese Thought : An Introduction S.Y. Hsieh suggests a set of assumptions underlying the concept of ( xing - ming ). That when a large group of people are living together, it is necessary to have some form of government. The government has to be responsible for a wide range of things, to allow them to live together peacefully. The government does not consist of one person only, but a group. One is a leader that issues orders to other members, namely officials, and assigns responsibilities to them. To do this, the leader must know the exact nature of the responsibilities, as well as the capabilities of the officials. Responsibilities, symbolized by a title, should correspond closely with capabilities, demonstrated by performance. Correspondence measures success in solving problems and also controls the officials. When there is a match, the leader should award the officials. It is necessary to recruit from the whole population. Bureaucratic government marks the end of feudal government. Wu wei ( non-action ) Zhaoming Mirror frame, Western Han dynasty ( People ) go along with whatever has the backing of the authorities and adjust their words and actions according to whichever way the wind is blowing. They think that they will thus avoid mistakes. Deng Xiaoping Further information : Wu wei Playing a `` crucial role in the promotion of the autocratic tradition of the Chinese polity '', what is termed Wu wei ( or nonaction ) would become the political theory of the Fa - Jia, if not becoming their general term for political strategy. The ( qualified ) non-action of the ruler ensures his power and the stability of the polity, and can therefore be considered his foremost technique. The `` conception of the ruler 's role as a supreme arbiter, who keeps the essential power firmly in his grasp '' while leaving details to ministers, would have a `` deep influence on the theory and practice of Chinese monarchy. '' Following Shen Buhai strongly advocated by Han Fei, during the Han dynasty up until the reign of Han Wudi rulers confined their activity `` chiefly to the appointment and dismissal of his high officials '', a plainly `` Legalist '' practice inherited from the Qin dynasty. Lacking any metaphysical connotation, Shen used the term Wu wei to mean that the ruler, though vigilant, should not interfere with the duties of his ministers, acting through administrative method. Shen says : The ruler is like a mirror, reflecting light, doing nothing, and yet, beauty and ugliness present themselves ; ( or like ) a scale establishing equilibrium, doing nothing, and yet causing lightness and heaviness to discover themselves. ( Administrative ) method ( Fa ) is complete acquiescence. ( Merging his ) personal ( concerns ) with the public ( weal ), he does not act. He does not act, and yet as a result of his non-action ( wuwei ) the world brings itself to a state of complete order. Though not a conclusive argument against proto - Taoist influence, Shen 's Buhai 's Taoist terms do not show evidence of explicit Taoist usage ( Confucianism also uses terms like `` Tao '', or Wu wei ), lacking any metaphysical connotation. The Han Feizi has a commentary on the Tao Te Ching, but references Shen Buhai rather than Laozi for Wu wei. Since the bulk of both the Tao Te Ching and the Zhuangzhi appear to have been composed later, Sinologist Herrlee G. Creel argued that it may therefore be assumed that Shen Buhai influenced them.. Shen Buhai argued that if the government were organized and supervised relying on proper method ( Fa ), the ruler need do little -- and must do little. Unlike Legalists Shang Yang and Han Fei, Shen did not consider the relationship between ruler and minister antagonistic necessarily. Apparently paraphrasing the Analects, Shen Buhai 's statement that those near him will feel affection, while the far will yearn for him, stands in contrast to Han Fei, who considered the relationship between the ruler and ministers irreconcilable. However, Shen still believed that the ruler 's most able ministers are his greatest danger, and is convinced that it is impossible to make them loyal without techniques. Creel explains : `` The ruler 's subjects are so numerous, and so on alert to discover his weaknesses and get the better of him, that it is hopeless for him alone as one man to try to learn their characteristics and control them by his knowledge... the ruler must refrain from taking the initiative, and from making himself conspicuous -- and therefore vulnerable -- by taking any overt action. '' Shen Buhai portrays the ruler as putting up a front to hide his dependence on his advisers. Aside from hiding the ruler 's weaknesses, Shen 's ruler therefore makes use of method ( Fa ) in secrecy. Even more than with Han Fei, Shen Buhai 's ruler 's strategies are a closely guarded secret, aiming for a complete independence that challenges `` one of the oldest and most sacred tenets of ( Confucianism ), '' that of respectfully receiving and following ministerial advice. Though espousing an ultimate inactive end, the term does not appear in the Book of Lord Shang, ignoring it as an idea for control of the administration. Yin ( passive mindfulness ) Shen 's ruler plays no active role in governmental functions. He should not use his talent even if he has it. Not using his own skills, he is better able to secure the services of capable functionaries. However, Sinologist Herrlee G. Creel also argues that not getting involved in details allowed Shen 's ruler to `` truly rule '', because it leaves him free to supervise the government without interfering, maintaining his perspective. In theory, the use of techniques requires the ruler not engage in any interference or subjective consideration. Sinologist John Makeham explains : `` assessing words and deeds requires the ruler 's dispassionate attention ; ( yin is ) the skill or technique of making one 's mind a tabula rasa, non-committaly taking note of all the details of a man 's claims and then objectively comparing his achievements of the original claims. '' A commentary to the Shiji cites a now - lost book as quoting Shen Buhai saying : `` By employing ( yin ), ' passive mindfulness ', in overseeing and keeping account of his vassals, accountability is deeply engraved. '' The Guanzi similarly says : `` Yin is the way of non-action. Yin is neither to add to nor to detract from anything. To give something a name strictly on the basis of its form -- this is the Method of yin. '' Yin also aimed at concealing the ruler 's intentions, likes and opinions. Shen advises the ruler to keep his own counsel, hide his motivations and conceal his tracks in inaction, availing himself of an appearance of stupidity and insufficiency. If the ruler 's intelligence is display, men will prepare against it ; If his lack of intelligence is displayed, they will delude him. If his wisdom is displayed, men will gloss over ( their faults ) ; if his lack of wisdom is displayed, they will hide from him. If his lack of desires is displayed, men will spy out his true desires ; if his desires are displayed, they will tempt him. Therefore ( the intelligent ruler ) says ' I can not know them ; it is only by means of non-action that I control them. ' Said obscuration was to be achieved together with the use of Method ( Fa ). Not acting himself, he can avoid being manipulated. Despite such injunctions, it is clear that the ruler 's assignments would still be completely up to him. Shen Dao ( 350 -- c. 275 BC ) Iron weight dated from 221 BC with 41 inscriptions written in seal script about standardizing weights and measures during the 1st year of Qin dynasty Where there is a scale, people can not deceive others about weight ; where there is a ruler, people can not deceive others about length ; and where there is Fa, people can not deceive others about one 's words and deeds. Shen Dao Mold for making banliang coins Shen Dao argued for Wu wei in similar manner to Shen Buhai, saying The Dao of ruler and ministers is that the ministers labour themselves with tasks while the prince has no task ; the prince is relaxed and happy while the ministers bear responsibility for tasks. The ministers use all their intelligence and strength to perform his job satisfactorily, in which the ruler takes no part, but merely waits for the job to be finished. As a result, every task is taken care of. The correct way of government is thus. Shen Dao also espouses an impersonal administration in much the same sense as Shen Buhai, and in contrast with Shang Yang emphasizes the use of talent and the promotion of ministers, saying that order and chaos are `` not the product of one man 's efforts ''. Along this same line however he challenges the Confucian and Mohist esteem and appointment of worthies as a basis of order, pointing out that talented ministers existed in every age. Taking it upon himself to attempt a new, analytical solution, Shen advocated fairness as a new virtue, eschewing Shen Buhai 's administrative method in favour of a mechanical distribution ( `` the basis of fairness '' ) with the invariable Fa apportioning every person according to their achievement. Scholar Sugamoto Hirotsugu attributes the concept of Fen, or social resources, also used by the Guanzi and Xunzi, to Shen, given a `` dimensional '' difference through Fa, social relationships ( `` yin '' ) and division. If one rabbit runs through a town street, and a hundred chase it, it is because its distribution has not been determined... If the distribution has already been determined, even the basest people will no for it. The way to control All - under - Heaven and the country lies solely in determining distribution. The greatest function of Fa ( `` the principle of objective judgement ) is the prevention of selfish deeds and argument. However, doubting its long - term viability Shen did not exclude moral values and accepted ( qualified ) Confucian Li 's supplementation of Fa and social relationships, though he frames Li in terms of ( impersonal ) rules. `` The state has the li of high and low rank, but not a li of men of worth and those without talent. There is a li of age an youth, but not of age and cowardice. There is a li of near and distant relatives, but no li of love and hate. '' For this reason he is said to `` laugh at men of worth '' and `` reject sages '', his order relying not on them but on the Fa. Linking Fa to the notion of impartial objectivity associated with universal interest, and reframing the language of the old ritual order to fit a universal, imperial and highly bureaucratized state, Shen cautions the ruler against relying on his own personal judgment, contrasting personal opinions with the merit of the objective standard, or fa, as preventing personal judgements or opinions from being exercised. Personal opinions destroy Fa, and Shen Dao 's ruler therefore `` does not show favoritism toward a single person. '' When an enlightened ruler establishes ( gong ) ( `` duke '' or `` public interest '' ), ( private ) desires do not oppose the correct timing ( of things ), favoritism does not violate the law, nobility does not trump the rules, salary does not exceed ( that which is due ) one 's position, a ( single ) officer does not occupy multiple offices, and a ( single ) craftsman does not take up multiple lines of work... ( Such a ruler ) neither overworked his heart - mind with knowledge nor exhausted himself with self - interest ( si ), but, rather, depended on laws and methods for settling matters of order and disorder, rewards and punishments for deciding on matters of right and wrong, and weights and balances for resolving issues of heavy or light... The reason why those who apportion horses use ce - lots, and those who apportion fields use gou - lots, is not that they take ce and gou - lots to be superior to human wisdom, but that one may eliminate private interest and stop resentment by these means. Thus it is said : ' When the great lord relies on fa and does not act personally, affairs are judged in accordance with ( objective ) method ( fa ). ' The benefit of fa is that each person meets his reward or punishment according to his due, and there are no further expectations of the lord. Thus resentment does not arise and superiors and inferiors are in harmony. If the lord of men abandons method ( Fa ) and governs with his own person, then penalties and rewards, seizures and grants, will all emerge from the lord 's mind. If this is the case, then those who receive rewards, even if these are commensurate, will ceaselessly expect more ; those who receive punishment, even if these are commensurate, will endlessly expect more lenient treatment... people will be rewarded differently for the same merit and punished differently for the same fault. Resentment arises from this. '' Doctrine of position ( shih ) The people of Qi have a saying -- `` A man may have wisdom and discernment, but that is not like embracing the favourable opportunity. A man may have instruments of husbandry, but that is not like waiting for the farming seasons. '' Mencius The Chinese Immortal Han Xiangzi riding a cloud A floating seed of the p'eng plant, meeting a whirlwind, may be carried a thousand li, because it rides on the power ( shi ) of the wind. If, in measuring an abyss, you know that it is a thousand fathoms deep, it is owing to the figures which you find by dropping a string. By depending on the power ( shi ) of a thing, you will reach a point, however, distant it may be, and by keeping the proper figures, you will find out the depth, however deep it may be. The Book of Lord Shang Generally speaking, the `` Fa - Jia '' understood that the power of the state resides in social and political institutions, and are innovative in their aim to subject the state to them. Like Shen Buhai, Shen Dao largely focused on statecraft ( Fa ), and Confucian Xun Kuang discusses him in this capacity, never referencing Shen Dao in relation to power. Shen Dao is remembered for his theories on Shih ( lit. `` situational advantage '', but also `` power '' or `` charisma '' ) because Han Fei references him in this capacity. Han Fei says : The reason why I discuss the power of position is for the sake of... mediocre rulers. These mediocre rulers, at best they do not reach the level of ( the sages ) Yao or Shun, and at worst they do not behave like ( the arch - tyrants ) Jie or Zhou. If they hold to the law and depend on the power of their position, there will be order ; but if they abandon the power of their position and turn their backs on the law, there will be disorder. Now if one abandons the power of position, turns one 's back on the law, and waits for a Yao or Shun, then when a Yao or a Shun arrives there will indeed be order, but it will only be one generation of order in a thousand generations of disorder... Nevertheless, if anyone devotes his whole discourse to the sufficiency of the doctrine of position to govern All - under - Heaven, the limits of his wisdom must be very narrow. Used in many areas of Chinese thought, Shih probably originated in the military field. Diplomats relied on concepts of situational advantage and opportunity, as well as secrecy ( shu ) long before the ascendancy of such concepts as sovereignty or law, and were used by kings wishing to free themselves from the aristocrats. Sun Tzu would go on to incorporate Taoist philosophy of inaction and impartiality, and Legalist punishment and rewards as systematic measures of organization, recalling Han Fei 's concepts of power ( shih ) and tactics ( shu ). Henry Kissinger 's On China says : `` Chinese statesmanship exhibits a tendency to view the entire strategic landscape as part of a single whole... Strategy and statecraft become means of ' combative coexistence ' with opponents. The goal is to maneuver them into weakness while building up one 's own shi, or strategic position. '' Kissinger considers the `` maneuvering '' approach an ideal, but one that ran in contrast to the conflicts of the Qin dynasty. Shen Dao Searching out the causes of disorder, Shen Dao observed splits in the ruler 's authority. Shen Dao 's theory on power echoes Shen Buhai, referenced by Xun Kuang as its originator, who says `` He who ( can become ) singular decision - maker can become the sovereign of All under Heaven ''. Shen Dao 's theory may otherwise have been borrowed from the Book of Lord Shang. For Shen Dao, `` Power '' ( Shih ) refers to the ability to compel compliance ; it requires no support from the subjects, though it does not preclude this. ( Shih 's ) merit is that it prevents people from fighting each other ; political authority is justified and essential on this basis. Shen Dao says : `` When All under Heaven lacks the single esteemed ( person ), then there is no way to carry out the principles ( of orderly government, li 理 ).... Hence the Son of Heaven is established for the sake of All under Heaven... All under Heaven is not established for the sake of the Son of Heaven... '' Talent can not be displayed without power. Shen Dao says : `` The flying dragon rides on the clouds and the rising serpent wanders in the mists. But when the clouds disperse and the mists clear up, the dragon and the serpent become the same as the earthworm and the large winged black ant because they have lost what they ride. '' Leadership is not a function of ability or merit, but is given by some a process, such as giving a leader to a group. `` The ruler of a state is enthroned for the sake of the state ; the state is not established for the sake of the prince. Officials are installed for the sake of their offices ; offices are not established for the sake of officials... Usually disregarded by the Fa - Jia, Shen Dao considers moral capability useful in terms of authority. If the ruler is inferior but his command is practised, it is because he is able to get support from people. But his ideas otherwise constitute a `` direct challenge '' to Confucian virtue. Virtue is unreliable because people have different capacities. Both morality together with intellectual capability are insufficient to rule, while position of authority is enough to attain influence and subdue the worthy, making virtue `` not worth going after. '' Han Fei Like Shen Dao, Han Fei seems to admit that virtue can have persuasive power even in his own time, but criticizes this as insufficient ; power should be amassed through `` laws '' ( fa ), and unlike Shen considers government by moral persuasion and government by power ( shih ) mutually incompatible. The ruler 's authority ( shih ) should depend neither on his own personal qualities or cultivation, or even upon Shen Dao 's position or power, but on Fa ( law or checks and balances ), a more vital source for his authority. Shang Yang and Han Fei 's rejection of charisma ( shih ) as ineffective underwrite their rejection of the Confucian ruler. Han Fei does stress that the leader has to occupy a position of substantial power before he is able to use these or command followers. Competence or moral standing do not allow command. For Han Fei, in order to actually influence, manipulate or control others in an organization and attain organizational goals it is necessary to utilize tactics ( shu ), regulation ( fa ), and rewards and punishment -- the `` two handles ''. Reward and punishment determine social positions -- the right to appoint and dismiss. In line with Shih, these should never be relegated. The ruler must be the sole dispenser of honors and penalties. If these are delegated to the smallest degree, and people are appointed on the basis of reputation or worldly knowledge, then rivals will emerge and the ruler 's power will fall to opinion and cliques ( the ministers ). Allowing him to prevent collapse by combating or resolving ministerial disagreements and ambitions, the rule 's exclusive authority outweighs all over considerations, and Han Fei requires that the ruler punish disobedient ministers even if the results of their actions were successful. Goods may not be considered meaningful outside of his control. Han Fei ( 280 -- 233 BC ) Intending to abolish philosophy, Han Fei rejects moral reform or any natural basis for it, and considers philosophical disputation an attempt to replace the Confucians ( obtain office ). He inheres however to the tradition of Fa, considering coherent discourse essential for the functioning of the state. Han Fei 's analysis of the problem of rulership is that `` people naturally incline to private interpretation ( Chad Hansen ). '' Differentiating his theory from that of the Confucians on the objectivity and accessibility of Fa. he considers measurement ( Fa ) the only justification for adopting an explicit code, rather than leaving matters to tradition. As with Shen Buhai and most of the School of Names he takes the congruence between name and reality as a primary goal. Public, measurement - like standards for applying names ( administrative standards or job contracts ) can `` plausibly make it hard for clever ministers to lie, ( or ) for glib talkers to take people ( or the ruler ) in with sophistries... ( They make it possible to ) correct the faults of superiors, expose error, check excess, and unify standards... Laws, by themselves, can not prevent the ruler from being fooled or deceived. The ruler needs Fa. '' Han Fei 's arguments for `` rule by law '' ( Fa ) would not have as much persuasive power as they do if not for Fa, without which its objectives can not be achieved. He rejects Confucian Li, scholarly interpretation and opinion, worldly knowledge, and reputation : models must be measured, dissolving behaviour and disputes of distinction into practical application. Considering politics the only means of preserving the power of the state, he emphasizes standards ( Fa ), preventing disputes in language or knowledge, as the ruler 's only protection. Providing reward and penalty automatically, Fa strictly defines state functions through binding, general rules, removing from discussion what would otherwise only be opinion, and preventing conflicts of competencies, undue powers or profits. To this end, Han Fei 's high officials focus solely on definition through calculation and the construction of objective models, judged solely by effectiveness. Performance and title ( Xing - Ming ) `` If one has regulations based on objective standards and criteria and apply these to the mass of ministers, then that ruler can not be duped by cunning fraudulence. '' Han Fei Han Fei was notoriously focused on what he termed Xing - Ming, which Sima Qian and Liu Xiang define as `` holding actual outcome accountable to Ming. ( speech ) '' In line with both the Confucian and Mohist rectification of names, it is relatable to the Confucian tradition in which a promise or undertaking, especially in relation to a government aim, entails punishment or reward, though the tight, centralized control emphasized by both his and his predecessor Shen Buhai 's philosophy conflicts with the Confucian idea of the autonomous minister. Possibly referring to the drafting and imposition of laws and standardized legal terms, Xing - Ming may originally have meant `` punishments and names '', but with the emphasis on the latter. It functions through binding declarations ( Ming ), like a legal contract. Verbally committing oneself, a candidate is allotted a job, indebting him to the ruler. `` Naming '' people to ( objectively determined ) positions, it rewards or punished according to the proposed job description and whether the results fit the task entrusted by their word, which a real minister fulfils. Han Fei insists on the perfect congruence between words and deeds. Fitting the name is more important than results. The completion, achievement, or result of a job is its assumption of a fixed form ( xing ), which can then be used as a standard against the original claim ( ming ). A large claim but a small achievement is inappropriate to the original verbal undertaking, while a larger achievement takes credit by overstepping the bounds of office. Han Fei 's `` brilliant ruler '' `` orders names to name themselves and affairs to settle themselves. '' `` If the ruler wishes to bring an end to treachery then he examines into the congruence of the congruence of hsing ( form / standard ) and claim. This means to ascertain if words differ from the job. A minister sets forth his words and on the basis of his words the ruler assigns him a job. Then the ruler holds the minister accountable for the achievement which is based solely on his job. If the achievement fits his job, and the job fits his words, then he is rewarded. If the achievement does not fit his jobs and the job does not fit his words, then he will be punished. Assessing the accountability of his words to his deeds, the ruler attempts to `` determine rewards and punishments in accordance with a subject 's true merit '' ( using Fa ). It is said that using names ( ming ) to demand realities ( shih ) exalts superiors and curbs inferiors, provides a check on the discharge of duties, and naturally results in emphasizing the high position of superiors, compelling subordinates to act in the manner of the latter. Han Fei considers Xing - Ming an essential element of autocracy, saying that `` In the way of assuming Oneness names are of first importance. When names are put in order, things become settled down ; when they go awry, things become unfixed. '' He emphasizes that through this system, initially developed by Shen Buhai, uniformity of language could be developed, functions could be strictly defined to prevent conflict and corruption, and objective rules ( Fa ) impervious to divergent interpretation could be established, judged solely by their effectiveness. By narrowing down the options to exactly one, discussions on the `` right way of government '' could be eliminated. Whatever the situation ( Shih ) brings is the correct Dao. Though recommending use of Shen Buhai 's techniques, Han Fei 's Xing - Ming is both considerably narrower and more specific. The functional dichotomy implied in Han Fei 's mechanistic accountability is not readily implied in Shen 's, and might be said to be more in line with the later thought of the Han dynasty linguist Xu Gan than that of either Shen Buhai or his teacher Xun Kuang. The `` two handles '' Mythical White Tiger. Qin Shi Huang was called the `` Tiger of Qin '' Supposing the tiger cast aside its claws and fangs and let the dog use them, the tiger would, in turn, be subjected by the dog. Han Fei Zi A modern statue of the First Emperor and his attendants on horseback The two August Lords of high antiquity grasped the handles of the Way and so were established in the center. Their spirits mysteriously roamed together with all transformations and thereby pacified the four directions. Huainanzi Though not entirely accurately, most Han works identify Shang Yang with penal law. Its discussion of bureaucratic control is simplistic, chiefly advocating punishment and reward. Shang Yang was largely unconcerned with the organization of the bureaucracy apart from this. The use of these `` two handles '' ( punishment and reward ) nonetheless forms a primary premise of Han Fei 's administrative theory. However, he includes it under his theory of Shu in connection with Xing - Ming. As a matter of illustration, if the `` keeper of the hat '' lays a robe on the sleeping Emperor, he has to be put to death for overstepping his office, while the `` keeper of the robe '' has to be put to death for failing to do his duty. The philosophy of the `` Two Handles '' likens the ruler to the tiger or leopard, which `` overpowers other animals by its sharp teeth and claws '' ( rewards and punishments ). Without them he is like any other man ; his existence depends upon them. To `` avoid any possibility of usurpation by his ministers '', power and the `` handles of the law '' must `` not be shared or divided '', concentrating them in the ruler exclusively. In practice, this means that the ruler must be isolated from his ministers. The elevation of ministers endangers the ruler, with which he must be kept strictly apart. Punishment confirms his sovereignty ; law eliminates anyone who oversteps his boundary, regardless of intention. Law `` aims at abolishing the selfish element in man and the maintenance of public order '', making the people responsible for their actions. Han Fei 's rare appeal ( among Legalists ) to the use of scholars ( law and method specialists ) makes him comparable to the Confucians, in that sense. The ruler can not inspect all officials himself, and must rely on the decentralized ( but faithful ) application of laws and methods ( fa ). Contrary to Shen Buhai and his own rhetoric, Han Fei insists that loyal ministers ( like Guan Zhong, Shang Yang, and Wu Qi ) exist, and upon their elevation with maximum authority. Though Fa - Jia sought to enhance the power of the ruler, this scheme effectively neutralizes him, reducing his role to the maintenance of the system of reward and punishments, determined according to impartial methods and enacted by specialists expected to protect him through their usage thereof. Combining Shen Buhai 's methods with Shang Yang 's insurance mechanisms, Han Fei 's ruler simply employs anyone offering their services. Wu wei Devoting the entirety of Chapter 14, `` How to Love the Ministers '', to `` persuading the ruler to be ruthless to his ministers '', Han Fei 's enlightened ruler strikes terror into his ministers by doing nothing ( Wu wei ). The qualities of a ruler, his `` mental power, moral excellence and physical prowess '' are irrelevant. He discards his private reason and morality, and shows no personal feelings. What is important is his method of government. Fa ( administrative standards ) require no perfection on the part of the ruler. Han Fei 's use of Wu - Wei may have been derivative of Taoism, but its Tao is qualitatively different from the Laozi 's, emphasizing autocracy ( `` Tao does not identify with anything but itself, the ruler does not identify with the ministers '' ) and Shu as a `` practical principle of political control '' more than any state of mind. Tao exists in invisibility ; its function, in unintelligibility. Be empty and reposed and have nothing to do - Then from the dark see defects in the light. See but never be seen. Hear but never be heard. Know but never be known. If you hear any word uttered, do not change it nor move it but compare it with the deed and see if word and deed coincide with each other. Place every official with a censor. Do not let them speak to each other. Then everything will be exerted to the utmost. Cover tracks and conceal sources. Then the ministers can not trace origins. Leave your wisdom and cease your ability. Then your subordinates can not guess at your limitations. The bright ruler is undifferentiated and quiescent in waiting, causing names ( roles ) to define themselves and affairs to fix themselves. If he is undifferentiated then he can understand when actuality is pure, and if he is quiescent then he can understand when movement is correct. Han Fei 's commentary on the Tao Te Ching asserts that perspectiveless knowledge -- an absolute point of view -- is possible, though the chapter may have been one of his earlier writings. Enlightened absolutism Even if the Fa - Jia were not ardent absolutists ( and Han Fei believed that most rulers would be average ), they would never dream of openly challenging absolutism. Its methods are presented as, if not intended to empower the ruler. Han Fei 's doctrine, however, challenges its absolutist premise out of its own mouth. In order for its administration to function, the ruler must act as a cog in its operation, and that alone. The operation of Fa implies non-interference not only in its application, but also in its development, determined through method. Sinologist Xuezhi Guo contrasts the Confucian `` Humane ruler '' with the Legalists as `` intending to create a truly ' enlightened ruler ' ''. He quotes Benjamin I. Schwartz as describing the features of a truly Legalist `` enlightened ruler '' : `` He must be anything but an arbitrary despot if one means by a despot a tyrant who follows all his impulses, whims and passions. Once the systems which maintain the entire structure are in place, he must not interfere with their operation. He may use the entire system as a means to the achievement of his national and international ambitions, but to do so he must not disrupt its impersonal workings. He must at all times be able to maintain an iron wall between his private life and public role. Concubines, friends, flatterers and charismatic saints must have no influence whatsoever on the course of policy, and he must never relax his suspicions of the motives of those who surround him. '' As easily as mediocre carpenters can draw circles by employing a compass, anyone can employ the system Han Fei envisions. The enlightened ruler restricts his desires and refrains from displays of personal ability or input in policy. Capability is not dismissed, but the ability to use talent will allow the ruler greater power if he can utilize others with the given expertise. Laws and regulations allow him to utilize his power to the utmost. Adhering unwaveringly to legal and institutional arrangements, the average monarch is numinous. A.C. Graham writes : ( Han Fei 's ) ruler, empty of thoughts, desires, partialities of his own, concerned with nothing in the situation but the ' facts ', selects his ministers by objectively comparing their abilities with the demands of the offices. Inactive, doing nothing, he awaits their proposals, compares the project with the results, and rewards or punishes. His own knowledge, ability, moral worth, warrior spirit, such as they may be, are wholly irrelevant ; he simply performs his function in the impersonal mechanism of state. '' Resting empty, the ruler simply checks `` shapes '' against `` names '' and dispenses rewards and punishments accordingly, concretizing the Tao ( `` path '' ) of Laozi into standards for right and wrong. Submerged by the system he supposedly runs, the alleged despot disappears from the scene. Fall A modern marble statue of the first Emperor of China, Qin Shi Huang Juyong Pass Guided by Legalist thought, the First Qin Emperor Qin Shi Huang conquered and unified the China 's warring states into thirty - six administrative provinces, under what is commonly thought of as the first Chinese Empire, the Qin dynasty. The Qin document `` On the Way of Being an Official '' proclaims the ideal of the official as a responsive conduit, transmitting the facts of his locale to the court, and its orders, without interposing his own will or ideas. It charges the official to obey his superiors, limit his desires, and to build roads to smooth the transmitting of directives from the center without modification. It praises loyalty, absence of bias, deference, and the appraisal of facts. The intrastate realpolitik would end up devouring the philosophers themselves. Holding that if punishments were heavy and the law equally applied, neither the powerful nor the weak would be able to escape consequences, Shang Yang advocated the state 's right to punish even the ruler 's tutor, and ran afoul of the future King Huiwen of Qin ( c. 338 -- 311 BC ). Whereas at one point, Shang Yang had the power to exile his opponents ( and, thus, eviscerate individual criticism ) to border regions of the state, he was captured by a law he had introduced and died being torn into pieces by chariots. Similarly, Han Fei would end up being poisoned by his envious former classmate Li Si, who in turn would be killed ( under the law he had introduced ) by the aggressive and violent Second Qin Emperor that he had helped to take the thrones. As recorded in the Shiji and Book of Han, the Han dynasty took over the governmental institutions of the Qin dynasty almost unchanged, but in its early decades it was not a centralized state, parcelling out the country to a number of relatives, who as vassal kings who ruled with full authority. The reputation of Legalism suffered from its association with the former Qin dynasty. Sima Tan, though hailing the Fa `` school '' for `` honouring rulers and derogating subjects, and clearly distinguishing offices so that no one can overstep ( his responsibilities ) '', criticized the Legalist approach as `` a one - time policy that could not be constantly applied. '' Though different philosophically, the pairing of figures like Shen Buhai and Shang Yang along with Han Fei became common in the early Han dynasty, Sima Tan glossing the three as Fa Jia and his son as adherents of `` xing ming '' ( `` performance and title '' ). The syncretic Han Dynasty text, the Huainanzi writes that `` On behalf of the Ch'in, Lord Shang instituted the mutual guarantee laws, and the hundred surnames were resentful. On behalf of Ch'u, Wu Ch'i issued order to reduce the nobility and their emoluments, and the meritorious ministers revolted. Lord Shang, in establishing laws, and Wu Ch'i, in employing the army, were the best in the world. But Lord Shang 's laws ( eventually ) caused the loss of Ch'in for he was perspicacious about the traces of the brush and knife, but did not know the foundation of order and disorder. Wu Ch'i, on account of the military, weakened Ch'u. He was well practiced in such military affairs as deploying formations, but did not know the balance of authority involved in court warfare. '' Usually referring to Warring States period philosophers, during the Han Fa - jia would be used for others disliked by the Confucian orthodoxy, like the otherwise Confucianistic reformers Guan Zhong and Xunzi, and the Huang - Lao Taoists. Later influences ( Xing - Ming ) The Shiji records Li Si as repeatedly recommending `` supervising and holding responsible '', which he attributed to Shen Buhai. A stele set up by Qin Shi Huang memorializes him as a sage that, taking charge of the government, established Xing - Ming. In the early Han dynasty, Sima Tan 's Taoist syncretism almost unmistakably uses the same sort of technique as Shen Buhai, saying : When the congregation of ministers has assembled, the ruler lets each do as he will ( zi ming ). If result coincides with claim, this is known as ' upright ' ; if it does not, this is known as ' hollow '. '' The Huang -- Lao text Jing fa says The right way to understand all these ( things ) is to remain in a state of ( vacuity, ) formlessness and non-being. Only if one remains in such a state, may he thereby know that ( all things ) necessarily possess their forms and names as soon as they come into existence, even though they are as small as autumn down. As soon as forms and names are established, the distinction between black and white becomes manifest... there will be no way to escape from them without a trace or to hide them from regulation... ( all things ) will correct themselves. The Shiji states that Emperor Wen of Han was `` basically fond of Xing - Ming. '' Jia Yi advised Wen to teach his heir to use Shen Buhai 's method, so as to be able to `` supervise the functions of the many officials and understand the usages of government. '' Pressure groups saw Jia Yi 's dismissal, but was brought back to criticize the government. Two advisors to Wen 's heir, Emperor Jing of Han were students of Xing - Ming, one passing the highest grade of examination, and admonished Jing for not using it on the feudal lords. By the time of the civil service examination was put into place, Confucian influence saw outright discussion of Shen Buhai banned. Xing - Ming is not discussed by Imperial University 's promoter, the famous Confucian Dong Zhongshu. However, the Emperor under which it was founded, Emperor Wu of Han, was both familiar with and favorable to Legalist ideas, and the civil service examination did not come into existence until its support by Gongsun Hong, who did write a book on Xing - Ming. The Emperor Xuan of Han was still said by Liu Xiang to have been fond of reading Shen Buhai, using Xing - Ming to control his subordinates and devoting much time to legal cases. Regarded as being in opposition to Confucians, as early as the Eastern Han its full and original meaning would be forgotten. Yet the writings of `` Tung - Cung - shu '' discuss personnel testing and control in a manner sometimes hardly distinguishable from the Han Feizi. Like Shen Buhai, he dissuades against reliance upon punishments. As Confucianism ascended the term disappeared, but appears again in later dynasties. The Yongzheng Emperor of the Qing dynasty was said by a Qing document `` Teng Ssu - yu '' to `` hsun ming tse she ( romanization ) '', or `` demand performance in accordance with title '', a near - verbatim usage of the Han Feizi. Imperial China Han dynasty The administration and political theory developed during the formative Warring States period would still influence every dynasty thereafter, as well as the Confucian philosophy that underlay Chinese political and juridical institutions. The influence of the Fa - Jia on Han Confucianism is very apparent, adopting Han Fei 's emphasis of a supreme ruler and authoritarian system rather than Mencius 's devaluation thereof, or Xun Kuang 's emphasis on the Tao. Shen Buhai 's book appears to have been widely studied in the beginning of the Han era. As protégé of a Han Dynasty Commandant of Justice that had studied under Li Si, Jia Yi was a student of Shen Buhai through them. Jia describes Shen Buhai 's Shu as a particular method of applying the Tao, or virtue, bringing together Confucian and Taoist discourses. He uses the imagery of the Zhuangzhi of the knife and hatchet as examples of skillful technique in both virtue and force, saying `` benevolence, righteousness, kindness and generosity are the ruler 's sharp knife. Power, purchase, law and regulation are his axe and hatchet ''. His writings blame the fall of the Qin dynasty simply on the education of the second emperor. He would draw up elaborate plans for reorganizing the bureaucracy, which Emperor Wen of Han put into effect. Shen Buhai never attempts to articulate natural or ethical foundations for his Fa ( administrative method ), nor does he provide any metaphysical grounds for his method of appointment ( later termed `` xing - ming '' ), but later texts do. The Huang - Lao work Boshu grounds fa and xing - ming in the Taoist Dao. The Discourses on Salt and Iron ' ) s Lord Grand Secretary uses Shang Yang in his argument against the dispersion of the people, stating that `` a Sage can not order things as he wishes in an age of anarchy ''. He recalls Lord Shang 's chancellery as firm in establishing laws and creating orderly government and education, resulting in profit and victory in every battle. Although Confucianism was promoted by the new emperors, the government continued to be run by Legalists. Emperor Wu of Han ( 140 -- 87 BC ) barred Legalist scholars from official positions and established a university for the study of the Confucian classics, but his policies and his most trusted advisers were Legalist. Michael Loewe called the reign of Emperor Wu the `` high point '' of Modernist ( classically justified Legalist ) policies, looking back to `` adapt ideas from the pre-Han period. '' An official ideology cloaking Legalist practice with Confucian rhetoric would endure throughout the imperial period, a tradition commonly described as wàirú nèifǎ ( Chinese : 外 儒 内 法 ; literally : `` outside Confucian, inside Legalist '' ). It became commonplace to adapt Legalist theories to the Han state by justifying them using the classics, or combining them with the notion of the `` way '' or `` pattern of the cosmos '' ( `` The Way gave birth to law '' Huangdi Sijing ). Some scholars `` mourne '' the lack of pure examples of Daoism, Confucianism and Legalism in the Han dynasty more generally. Han sources would nonetheless come to `` treat Legalism as an alternative to the methods of the Classicists. '' During the decay of the Han Dynasty, many scholars again took up an interest in Legalism, Taoism and even Mohism, and a number of Confucians took up `` Legalist '' methods to combat the growing disregard for law. Post Han The Records of the Three Kingdoms describes Cao Cao as a hero who `` devised and implemented strategies, lorded the world over, wielded skillfully the law and political technique of Shen Buhai and Shang Yang, and unified the ingenious strategies of Han Fei. '' Zhuge Liang also attached great importance to the works of Shen Buhai and Han Fei. The tendency toward Legalism is apparent in intellectual circles toward the end of the Han dynasty, and would be reinforced by Cao Wei. Dispossessed peasants were organized into paramilitary agricultural colonies to increase food production for the army, and penal legislation increased. These policies would be followed by the Northern Wei. Emperor Wen of Sui is recorded as having withdrawn his favour from the Confucians, giving it to `` the group advocating Xing - Ming and authoritarian government ''. But Wen might be said to have already been steeped in a Legalist tradition followed by the aristocratic institutions of the northern dynasties, who concerned themselves with functional organization and social hierarchy. The Sui dynasty and Tang dynasty were largely based upon the Western Wei and Northern Zhou, refining pre-existing institutions and taking measures against the aristocracy. Quoting Arthur Wright, Author Hengy Chye Kiang calls the Sui dynasty a `` strong autocratic power with a penchant for Legalist philosophy '', and its prime minister Gao Jiong `` a man of practical statecraft '' recalling the great Legalist statesmen. His influence saw the replacement of Confucians with officials of `` Legalist '' outlook favoring centralization. Ming dynasty Li Shanchang ( 1314 -- 1390 ), a founding Prime Minister of the Ming dynasty, studied Chinese Legalism. It is said that Li was the Emperor Hongwu 's closest comrade during the war, and greatest contributor to his ultimate victory and thus establishment of the Ming Dynasty. Deeply trusted by the Emperor, Hongwu consulted Li on institutional matters. Li planned the organization of the `` six ministries '' and shared in the drafting of a new law code. He established salt and tea monopolies based on Yuan institutions, eliminated corruption, restored minted currency, opened iron foundries, and instituted fish taxes. It is said that revenues were sufficient, yet the people were not oppressed. Most of his other activities seem to have supported Hongwu Emperor 's firm control of his regime. Mainly responsible for ferreting out disloyalty and factionalism among military officers, he used a reward and punishment system reminiscent of the Han Feizi, and may have had a kind of secret police in his service. At times he had charge of all civil and military officials in Nanking. In 1572 Zhang Juzheng, a legalistic, prime - minister like figure of the Ming Dynasty, had the young emperor of the time issue a warning edict against China 's bureaucracy with the reference that they had abandoned the public interest for their own private interests. It reads : `` From now on, you will be pure in your hearts and scrupulous in your work. You will not harbor private designs and deceive your sovereign... You will not complicate debates and disconcert the government. '' It suggests that good government will prevail as long as top ministers were resolute in administration of the empire and minor officials were selflessly devoted to the public good. It is said that the officials became `` very guarded and circumspect '' following its release. His `` On Equalizing Taxes and Succoring the People '' postulated that the partiality of local officials toward powerful local interests was responsible for abuses in tax collection, hurting both the common people and the Ming state. Zhang Juzheng wrote that `` it is not difficult to erect laws, but it is difficult to see they are enforced. '' His Regulation for Evaluating Achievements ( kao cheng fa ) assigned time limits for following government directives and made officials responsible for any lapses, enabling Zhang to monitor bureaucratic efficiency and direct a more centralized administration. That the rules were not ignored are a testament to his basic success. Modern A poster from 1974 by Zhang Yan ( 张 延 ). It reads `` Criticize Lin, criticize Confucius -- it is the most important matter for the whole party, the whole army and the people of the whole country. '' The government will call on society as a whole to be more proactive in implementing the rule of law... ( and ) encourage all members of society to voluntarily abide by the rule of law and to become its most faithful advocates and staunchest defenders. Fourth Plenary Session of the 18th Central Committee of the Communist Party of China excerpt, University of Sydney Legalism was partly rehabilitated in the twentieth century by new generations of intellectuals. One, Mai Menghua ( 1874 -- 1915 ), promulgated interest in Shang Yang 's thought, comparing Shang Yang 's view of history with the evolutionary ideas of western theorists. Hu Shi ( 1891 -- 1962 ) hailed Han Fei and Li Si for their `` brave spirit of opposing those who ' do not make the present into their teacher but learn from the past ' ''. Guomindang leader Hu Hanmin ( 1879 -- 1936 ) wrote the preface to a new edition of the Book of Lord Shang. On account of Fa - Jia ignoring differences among subjects, early modern Chinese scholarship often viewed it within the context of Western `` rule of law ''. One 1922 article, The Antiquity of Chinese Law, attributes three legal theories to Han Fei, referred to as a `` jurist ''. From the 1920s on it was viewed as being in a historical struggle with the Confucian `` rule of men ''. In the nineteenth century Shang Yang 's slogan of `` rich country, strong army '' was reinvoked in Japan as a `` formal ideological foundation of industrial and technological development. '' John Man describes the early Mao as a `` dyed - in - the - wool '' Legalist or `` Lord Shang - style ' sage ruler ', who defined the law according to revolutionary needs. '' Further information : Criticize Lin, Criticize Confucius The Communists would use the Fa - Jia in their criticism of Confucianism, describing the conflict between the two as class struggle. During the 1950 the PRC combined law with campaigns against political enemies, and appeals to the Fa - Jia for solutions became common after the Great Leap Forward. Fazhi, another historical term for `` Legalism '', would be used to refer to both socialist legality and Western rule of law. Still contrasted with renzhi ( or rule of persons ), most Chinese wanted to see it implemented in China. Rule of law again gained prominent attention in the 1970s after the Cultural Revolution, in Deng Xiaoping 's platform for modernization. Two decades of reform, Russia 's collapse and a financial crisis in the 1990s only served to increase its importance, and the 1999 constitution was amended to `` provide for the establishment of a socialist rule - of - law state '', aimed at increasing professionalism in the justice system. Signs and flyers urged citizens to uphold the rule of law. In the following years figures like Pan Wei, a prominent Beijing political scientist, would advocate for a consultative rule of law with a redefined role for the party and limited freedoms for speech, press, assembly and association. Xingzhong Yu, Professor at Cornell University, describes the PRC through a framework of `` State Legalism ''. Legalist discourse is seeing a resurgence during the leadership of Xi Jinping, who is the General Secretary of the Communist Party of China, with Journalists reporting on his fondness for the Chinese classics, alongside Confucianism including Legalist writers and in particular Han Fei, both of which Xi sees as relevant. Han Fei gained new prominence with favourable citations. One sentence of Han Fei 's that Xi quoted appeared thousands of times in official Chinese media at the local, provincial, and national levels. A key phrase of Xi 's reforms is `` govern the state according to law '' ( yi fa zhi guo ), but focuses on enforcing discipline on party and government officials first. As Realists In the Western world some early modern scholars used the term Realist, believing that said Realists, rejecting all appeals to tradition and the supernatural, held that law should replace morality. Waley contrasts what he terms the Realists with other the schools as largely ignoring the individual, holding that the object of any society is to dominate other societies, and A.F.P. Hulsewé writes `` ( Shang Yang and Han Fei ) were not so interested in the contents of the laws as in their use as a political tool... the predominantly penal laws and a system of rewards were the two ' handles ' ''. Angus Charles Graham sketched the fundamentals of an `` amoral science '' largely on the basis of the Han Feizi, consisting of `` adapting institutions to changing situations and overruling precedent where necessary ; concentrating power in the hands of the ruler ; and, above all, maintaining control of the factious bureaucracy. '' More recently, Liang Zhiping theorized that law emerged initially in China, namely, as an instrument by which a single clan exercised control over rival clans. In the earlier Spring and Autumn period, a Qin king is recorded as having memorialized penalty as a ritual function benefiting the people, saying `` I am the little son : respectfully, respectfully I obey and adhere to the shining virtuous power, brightly spread the clear punishments, gravely and reverentially perform my sacrifices to receive manifold blessings. I regulate and harmonize myriad people, gravely from early morning to evening, valorous, valorous, awesome, awesome -- the myriad clans are truly disciplined ! I completely shield the hundred nobles and the hereditary officers. Staunch, staunch in my civilizing and martial ( power ), I calm and silence those who do not come to the court ( audience ). I mollify and order the hundred states to have them strictly serve the Qin. '' Ross Terrill writes that `` Chinese Legalism is as Western as Thomas Hobbes, as modern as Hu Jintao. It speaks the universal and timeless language of law and order. 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Question: who was the founder of legalism in china
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