Revival: Shang yang's reforms and state control in China. (1977)

This title was first published in 1977. The name of Shang Yang (c. 390-338 B.C.) is inseparable from his reforms, which laid the foundation for the first Chinese empire and had a deep and lasting influence on Chinese political thought and institutions. A wide-ranging series of carefully prepared translations of books published in China since 1949, each with an extended introduction by a western scholar.

Born and raised in China, Li Yu-Ning received a B.A. from National Taiwan University and a Ph.D. in history from Columbia University. She is the author of The Introduction of Socialism into China (Columbia University Press, 1971) and Wu Hanchuan (A Biography of Wu Han) (Hong Kong: Min Pao Publishers, 1973). She edited The First Emperor of China: The Politic s of Historiography (International Arts and Sciences Press, 1975). With Chang Y ii-fa , she compiled and edited Chin-tai Chun?-kuo nu-ch'uan yun-tung shih -liao (Documents on the Feminist Movement in Modern China, 1842-1911)?2 volumes (Taipei: Biographical Literature Publishing Company, 1976). She is editor of the journal Chinese Studies in History.

INTRODUCTION SHANG YANG'S REFORMS 1. The Age in Which Shang Yang Was Born 2. Shang Yang's Arrival in the State of Ch'in and His Struggle with the Old Aristocrats 3. The Initial Stage of the Reforms 4. The Success of Further Reforms 5. The Murder of Shang Yang and the Continued Struggle of the Shang Yang School of Legalists 6. The Role of Shang Yang's Reforms in the Transition from the Old to the New Society