A Field Guide to Classical Chinese Thinking Methods · c. 770–221 BCE
Between 770 and 221 BCE, China's Spring and Autumn and Warring States periods produced an explosion of rival philosophies — the Hundred Schools of Thought 诸子百家 — as wandering scholars competed to answer how to live, how to rule, and how to win. This site is not a history of what they believed; it is a map of how they thought. Each sheet extracts one core proposition, a handful of mental models, and where those models still run today.