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Guanzi: The Book of Master Guan
Guan Zhong made the state of Qi the most powerful in China, and Confucius said that without him we would all wear our hair loose like barbarians. The huge book that bears his name was assembled by scholars of Qi over several centuries and is the most varied of all the early Chinese philosophical works. It covers government, law, economics and the price of grain, the training of troops, agriculture and water control, the calendar and the five phases, and the inward training of the mind and breath that anticipates Taoist meditation. It is also the first Chinese book to think seriously about money, markets and state monopolies. This complete new English translation covers all the surviving chapters, up to the Light and Heavy economic dialogues.
