Table of Contents

Chapter 1 Introduction; Chapter 2 The Legalist School; Chapter 3 The Primacy of Power; Chapter 4 Law as the Penal Tool of the Ruler; Chapter 5 Statecraft; Chapter 6 The Impact of the Legalists on the Imperial State; Chapter 7 The Congruence of Legalist Tenets and Orthodox Marxism-Leninism; Chapter 8 Conclusion;

About the Author

Educated at Yenching and Peking Universities, Zhengyuan Fu has taught and done research at the Academy of Social Sciences in Beijing, the University of Michigan, Stanford University, and the University of California at Irvine. He was named first Trustee Professor of Chapman University in 1994 and is concurrently a Research Fellow at the Asian Studies Center of The Claremont Institute. He is the author of Autocratic Tradition and Chinese Politics (Cambridge University Press, 1993).