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Period: 551 BCE to 479 BCE
Confucius
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Period: 403 BCE to 221 BCE
Period of the Warring States
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Period: 390 BCE to 338 BCE
Shang Yang
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Period: 372 BCE to 289 BCE
Mencius
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Period: 298 BCE to 238 BCE
Xunzi
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Period: 280 BCE to 233 BCE
Han Feizi
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Period: 221 BCE to 207 BCE
Qin dynasty
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Period: 206 BCE to 9
Former Han dynasty
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Period: 141 BCE to 87 BCE
Reign of Han Wudi
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Period: 9 to 23
Reign of Wang Mang
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Period: 25 to 220
Later Han dynasty