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⁷ e.g., surprisingly enough in a book which sets out to describe the legalist background of the Ch'in empire, there is apparently no reference to Han-fei-tzu in the first edition, but that document is cited twice in the new edition of ch. v and vi. Again, the second edition omits the encomium on the success of the peasants' revolt in bringing about the collapse of the Ch'in régime, that forms the finale for the first edition (see the volume under review, pp. 160–1).