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Ames, Roger T. The Art of Rulership: A Study of Ancient Chinese Political Thought. New York: State University of New York Press, 1994. xxv + 277 pp. Cloth, $14.95--This work contains a full, critical translation of Huai Nan Tzu, Book 9, Chu-shu ("The Art of Rulership"), which is part of "an important compendium of knowledge and philosophical speculation . . . presented to the Chinese court of Wu Ti during the first century of the Former Han (206 B.C.-8 A.D.)" (p. XV). Preceding the translation is a dense philosophical analysis of the treatise, and of its place in a painstakingly ...

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