Pao Ching-yen

Pao Ching-yen (zh:鮑敬言) (also transliterated as Bao Jingyan) was a Chinese Taoist libertarian philosopher[1] who lived 405-466 AD.

A successor of Laozi and Zhuang Zhou in the politically-ethically libertarian strain of Taoism, Pao Ching-yen was, according to Etienne Balazs “China’s first political anarchist.” He extended the arguments in the Zhuangzi to deeply critique State authority and power.

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  1. Joseph Needham (3 January 1956). Science and Civilisation in China: Volume 2, History of Scientific Thought. Cambridge University Press. pp. 434–. ISBN 978-0-521-05800-1.
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