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A king imprisoned for seven years invented the 64 hexagrams of the Zhou Yi. Confucius, Jung, and CEOs worldwide still argue about what he meant by them.
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The story of a sage who may never have existed, the gatekeeper who got him to talk, and the 5,000 characters that became China's most translated book.
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How a humble Yue strategist masterminded Wu's destruction, declined a duke's reward, vanished, and reappeared as Tao Zhu Gong—China's merchant saint.
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Lü Buwei rose from a Yangxin merchant to Qin chancellor, then hired 3,000 scholars to write an encyclopedia that outlived his political fall from power.
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The Ming Dynasty official, military commander, and philosopher who developed one of the most radical ideas in Chinese thought — that the mind is the universe, that knowledge without action is not knowledge, and that everyone has the capacity to become a sage.
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The prince who wrote the manual for dictatorship and then died in the prison of the dynasty his ideas had built — how Han Feizi's bleak vision of human nature shaped imperial China for two thousand years.
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The kunpeng of Zhuangzi's Daoist parable transforms from the largest fish into the largest bird, with 1,000-mile wingspan. A cosmic metaphor for transformation, ambition, and the relativity of scale.
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