Hilde De Weerdt at Leiden University

Roel Sterckx at the University of Cambridge

Chinese Text Project

Legalism in Chinese Philosophy - Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy

Legalism (Chinese philosophy) - Wikipedia

READING LIST:

Ssu-Ma Ch’ien (ed. William H. Nienhauser Jr.), The Grand Scribe’s Records, volume 1, The Basic Annals of Pre-Han China (Indiana University Press, 1995)

Jeanne-Marie Gescher, All Under Heaven: China’s Dreams of Order (Kaduba House, 2015)

Paul R. Goldin (ed.), Dao Companion to the Philosophy of Han Fei (Springer, 2012)

Valerie Hansen, The Open Empire: A History of China to 1600, (W. W. Norton, 2000)

A. F. P Hulsewe, Remnants of Ch'in Law: An annotated translation of the Ch'in legal and administrative rules of the 3rd century BC, discovered in Yun-meng Prefecture, Hu-pei Province (Brill, 1985)

Jean Levi (trans. Barbara Bray), The Chinese Emperor: A Novel (first published 1987; Penguin Books, 1990)

Mark Edward Lewis, The Early Chinese Empires: Qin and Han (Harvard University Press, 2007)

Michael Loewe, A Biographical Dictionary of the Qin, Former Han and Xin periods (221 BC - AD 24) (Brill, 2010)

Michael Loewe and Edward L. Shaughnessy (eds.), The Cambridge History of Ancient China: From the Origins of Civilisation to 221 BC (Cambridge University Press, 1999)

Yuri Pines, Lothar von Falkenhausen, Gideon Shelach, Robin D. S. Yates (eds.), Birth of an Empire; The State of Qin Revisited (University of California Press, 2014)

Yang Shang (trans. J. J. L. Duyvendak), The Book of Lord Shang: A Classic of the Chinese School of law (first published 1928; Lawbook Exchange Ltd, 2011)

Denis Twitchett and Michael Loewe (eds.), The Cambridge History of China, volume 1, The Ch’in and Han Empires 221 BC - AD 220 (Cambridge University Press, 1986)

Han Fei Tzu (trans. Burton Watson), Han Fei Tzu: Basic Writings (first published 1964; Columbia University Press, 2003)

Frances Wood, The First Emperor of China (Profile Books, 2007)

Frances Wood, Picnics Prohibited: Diplomacy in a Chaotic China during the First World War (Penguin, 2016)