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Bookmark or Share- Shang Yang - Great Reformer of the Qin State | ChinaFetchingShang Yang (about 395 BC — 338 BC), also named Gongsun Yang or Wei Yang, was one of the most influential reformers in the history of China. He impressed and gained the trust of the King of Qin, using his talent and brilliant reform ideas.
- Shang Yang - WikipediaShang Yang (Chinese: 商鞅; c. 390 – 338 BC), also known as Wei Yang (Chinese: 衞鞅) and originally surnamed Gongsun, was a statesman, chancellor and reformer of the State of Qin.
- Shang Yang - Encyclopedia.comShang Yang (also known as Wei Yang or Kung-sun Yang), who died in 338 B.C., was a Chinese political administrator who left his native state of Wei to enter the service of Duke Hsiao of the state of Ch’in.
- Legalism in Chinese Philosophy - Stanford Encyclopedia of PhilosophyShang Yang deplores traveling intellectuals because they damage the foundations of his sociopolitical model. By gaining official positions and emoluments outside the carefully designed system of ranks of merit, they dilute the system’s exclusivity.
- Shang Yang as a Historical Personality and as a SymbolThis article gives an overview of Shang Yang portrayals in four stages: from Han Fei’s sympathetic yet balanced assessment, passing over a variety of conflicting Han views, skipping through “the two millennia of vilification” to Zhang Taiyan’s (1869–1936) rediscovery of Shang Yang, and ending up at the Shang Yang fervor of the 1970s.
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