The most universalist Chinese ethical philosophy was marginalized for two millennia

Evidence

What this means is that the most rigorously universalist case for ethical impartiality in Chinese antiquity was, by historical accident as much as by design, marginalized for two thousand years. It survived. Sun Yirang’s recovery let modern scholars read it. Contemporary Chinese-philosophy specialists — Chris Fraser’s 2016 monograph, Bryan Van Norden’s translations, A. C. Graham’s foundational work in the 1970s — have made the text available in high-quality English. But the school — as a movement, as a community, as a practice — is gone. — , The Rod and the Child, 983