An intellectual with this family name protested Emperor Xianzong's tolerance of foreign religion and Daoism in the Memorial on Bone-Relics of the Buddha and is generally considered the most famous Tang-era prose author.
An intellectual with this family name advocated abandoning the complicated pianwen style of writing in favor of simple guwen, which he believed would aid in restoring Confucian character. Another intellectual with this family name wrote a fifty-five chapter treatise on realpolitik advocating that rulers master the maintenance of shi, or power, through the use of reward and penalty. An intellectual with this family name protested Emperor Xianzong's tolerance of foreign religion and Daoism in the Memorial on Bone-Relics of the Buddha and is generally considered the most famous Tang-era prose author. Li Si and a philosopher with this surname known as (*) Feizi were the primary philosophical proponents of Legalism. The dynasty that succeeded [emphasize] the first imperial dynasty to adopt Legalism also had this name. For 10 points, give the name of the Chinese dynasty that produced the first emperor to adopt Confucianism as state philosophy, Wudi.
An intellectual with this family name advocated abandoning the complicated pianwen style of writing in favor of simple guwen, which he believed would aid in restoring Confucian character.
Han [accept Han Feizi or Han Yu; accept Han dynasty or Handy Nasty]