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The School of Name left few records, primarily because they were not respected intellectuals in the ensuing generations. Even their contemporaries often found them annoying. Consistently, naming was considered essential to the restoration of a lost order although the purpose of naming had always been hotly disputed. Gongsun Long was beyond his time to the extent that the hegemonic discourse of value and certainty has multiplied the magnitude of rationality witnessed in pre-modern China in terms of installing as well as restoring the world order. The romantic reliance of rationality and the utopian tendency therein have been similar throughout human history.
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Hence the notion of “communist gentry;” see Richard Madsen, Morality and Power in a Chinese Village (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1985).
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Shih, Cy., Yu, Pt. (2015). Rationality Trespassing Reality. In: Post-Western International Relations Reconsidered: The Pre-Modern Politics of Gongsun Long. Global Political Thinkers. Palgrave Pivot, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137493217_7
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