'''Shang Yang''' ([[Simplified Chinese|simplified]]: 上扬; [[Traditional Chinese|Traditional]]: 上揚) was a Chinese statesman and philosopher. He promoted [[Legalism]], which was like the [[divine right of kings]] in the West. As a chancellor of Lord Xiao of Qin, he initiated a series of profound reforms that turned the relatively weak and peripheral state of [[Qin Dynasty|Qin]] into the strongest power and the eventual conqueror and unifier of the Chinese world.
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'''Shang Yang''' ([[Simplified Chinese|simplified]]: 上扬; [[Traditional Chinese|Traditional]]: 上揚) was a [[Chinese]] statesman and philosopher. He promoted [[Legalism]], which was like the [[divine right of kings]] in the West. As a chancellor of Lord Xiao of Qin, he initiated a series of profound reforms that turned the relatively weak and peripheral state of [[Qin Dynasty|Qin]] into the strongest power and the eventual conqueror and unifier of the Chinese world.