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The chapter “Objections 4” (“Nan 4”) occupies a peculiar position in  Han Feizi . It comprises four historical anecdotes, each of which is centered on a speech or a short utterance that summarizes its moralizing message. Then an objector refutes this message by confronting it with a broader historical perspective, and a second debater refutes his predecessor’s views. In my essay I argue that not only are the first three anecdotes evidently borrowed from  Zuozhuan , but, more significantly, the ensuing debate is based on surprisingly deep knowledge of  Zuozhuan  in general rather than of the specific anecdotes. The authors skillfully utilize the  Zuozhuan  narrative’s multivalence to undermine the moralizing message which transpires in the individual anecdotes. This reading of “Objections 4” chapter as an early ideological exegesis of  Zuozhuan  sheds a new light both on the early circulation of  Zuozhuan  and on the role of historical arguments in Han Feizi.

Han Feizi and the Earliest Exegesis of Zuozhuan