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| | Former Han Legal Philosophy notes |
 | | They seem to have considered China, the "Middle Kingdom," to be literally at the middle of the earth, positioned at the favored spot on the hub of the cyclical processes of nature. |
 | | By definition, the barbarians of the four quarters could not enjoy China's advantages, subject as their lands were to the unbalanced forces of the Yin and Yang, the Dipper, Sun, and Moon (Yantie lun 14: 101.) 49) See Hulsewé, Remnants of Han Law: 103-109. |
 | | 69) He served under Han Wendi, and was famed for flatly refusing the emperor's demand that a man who had accidentally frightened the emperor's horses should be more heavily punished than the fine allowed for in the law. |
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