Guan, Zhong, -646 BCE

管子 — Volume 01 : Chapters 1-5 Guanzi — Volume 01 : Chapters 1-5 - 1 online resource : multiple file formats

Wikipedia page about this book: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guanzi_(text) Release date is 2005-02-01

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"管子 — Volume 01: Chapters 1-5" by Zhong Guan is an anonymous Chinese political and philosophical text compiled in the early Han dynasty. Named for the 7th century BCE statesman Guan Zhong, this foundational work explores government, rulership, and political economy. Spanning over 135,000 characters originally, it addresses diverse topics including price regulation through "light and heavy" concepts. The text blends Daoist, Legalist, and Confucian elements, reflecting intellectual currents from the Spring and Autumn and Warring States periods while debating the proper balance between law, virtue, and ritual in governance. (This is an automatically generated summary.)



Philosophy, Chinese Chinese classics

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