PERSISTENT MISCONCEPTIONS ABOUT CHINESE “LEGALISM”

1 “The fa-chia: ‘Legalists’ or ‘Administrators’?” (1961), reprint ed in Creel’s What Is Taoism? and Other Studies in Chinese Cultural History (Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 1970), 92-120. It should be noted that in his earlier publications, s uch as Chinese Thought from Confucius to Mao Tse-tung (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1953), Creel s med comfortable with the term.