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551 BCE - 479 BCELife of Confucius.
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c. 500 BCELife of the Chinese Relativist Philosopher Teng Shih (probable date of death 522 or 502 BCE).
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c. 500 BCEProbable life of the Chinese philosopher Lao-Tzu, founder of Taoism and author of the Tao-Te-Ching.
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c. 500 BCEProbable life of Sun-Tzu, Military Strategist, author of The Art of War.
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470 BCE - 391 BCELife of the Chinese pacifist philosopher Mo Ti, founder of Mohism.
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440 BCE - 360 BCELife of Chinese Hedonist Philosopher Yang Zhu.
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372 BCE - 289 BCELife of the Confucian philosopher Mencius (Mang-Tze).
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c. 338 BCEDeath of Shang Yang, early proponent of Legalist philosophy in China.
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c. 280 BCE - c. 233 BCELife of Han Feizi who developed Legalism in China.
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221 BCE - 206 BCEAll philosophies of the Hundred Schools of Thought outlawed, except for Legalism, under the Qin Dynasty.
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213 BCE - 206 BCEQin Dynasty elevates Legalism as state philosophy and bans all others.
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202 BCE - 9 CEPhilosophies of the Hundred Schools of Thought revived under the Western Han Dynasty.
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141 BCE - 87 BCEReign of Wu the Great of the Han Dynasty; Confucianism becomes state philosophy.
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712 CE - 756 CETaoism becomes official religion of China under the Emperor Xuanzong.
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c. 756 CE - c. 907 CETaoism loses popular support with the decline of the Tang Dynasty. Replaced by Confucianism and Buddhism.
