Place

Xianyang

State of Qin · Modern China

Capital of the state of Qin. Here Shang Yang built the legalist order of strict law and merit that would forge the first Chinese empire.

Thinkers Connected to Xianyang

Shang Yang

c. 390 BCE – 338 BCE

He remade a single state with law alone, and the methods that raised it eventually consumed him.

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