- male
- Confucius (lit. "Master Kung," 551 BCE - 479 BCE) was an esteemed Chinese thinker and social philosopher, whose teachings and philosophy have...
- male
- Mencius (Romanization; 孟子, pinyin: Mèng Zǐ; Wade-Giles: Meng Tzu; most accepted dates: 372 – 289 BCE; other possible dates: 385 – 303/302 BCE) was a...
- male, deceased (1200)
- Zhu Xi or Chu Hsi (born October 18, 1130, Yuxi, Fujian province, China - died April 23, 1200, China) was a Song Dynasty (960-1279) Confucian...
- male
- The emperor known now as Qin Shi Huang (November / December 260 BCE – September 10, 210 BCE), personal name Yíng Zhèng, was king of the Chinese Stat...
- male
- Han Fei (韓非) (ca. 280-233 BC) was a philosopher who, along with Li Si, developed Xun Zi's philosophy into the doctrine embodied by the "School of L...
- male, deceased (1529)
- Wang Yangming (1472-1529) was a Ming Chinese idealist Neo-Confucian philosopher, official, educationist, calligraphist and general. After Zhu Xi,...
- male
- Tu Wei-ming is an ethicist and a New Confucian. He assumed his tenure as the Director of the Harvard-Yenching Institute in January 1996. Born in...
- male, deceased (762)
- Li Bai or Li Po (701-762) was a Chinese poet who lived during the Tang Dynasty. Called the Poet Immortal, Li Bai is often regarded, along with Du...
- male
- Li Si (ca. 280 BC - September or October 208 BC) was the influential Prime Minister (or Chancellor) of the feudal state and later of the dynasty of...
- male, deceased (1107)
- Chéng Yí was a philosopher in China who worked with his older brother Chéng Hào (程灏), a tutor to Zhū Xī. Like his brother, he was a student of...
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