Spring & Autumn and Warring States

The operators of China's age of warring states and contending schools — ministers, reformers, generals, and diplomat-strategists who govern, reform, campaign, and broker across the states, and how both they and their work end. Personal fate and durable legacy split hard here: Shang Yang is torn apart by chariots yet his laws build Qin's empire; Fan Li retires at his peak and dies old and free; Duke Huan of Qi assembles the lords nine times yet starves to death in a locked palace.