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The 68 pages that link to Warring States period, each with the reason it gives.

• Qin dynastyNarrower topic: Qin’s unification ended this prolonged struggle for supremacy.

• Zhou dynastyBroader topic: The Zhou royal house ended amid the final struggle for unification.

• DaoismNarrower topic: The earliest Daoist writings emerged amid its competing schools and political turmoil.

• Classical ChineseBroader topic: Many foundational works in the literary language were composed during this era.

• Qin Shi HuangNarrower topic: The prolonged conflict created the conditions for Qin conquest and imperial unification.

• AnalectsNarrower topic: Much of the Analects is thought to have been compiled amid the intellectual activity of this era.

• LegalismBroader topic: Intense interstate competition rewarded rulers who could mobilize people, resources, and armies.

• Spring and Autumn periodBroader topic: It followed the Spring and Autumn period with more centralized, sustained conflict.

• Great Wall of ChinaNarrower topic: Several states built frontier walls before China was unified.

• LaoziNarrower topic: The Tao Te Ching took shape amid the political upheaval of this era.

• MohismNarrower topic: Mohist proposals addressed the warfare and political instability of its setting.

• Chinese philosophyRelated: Its intense competition brought diverse schools of thought into sustained debate.

• State of QinNarrower topic: Qin’s rise unfolded within this contest and brought it to an end.

• Sun TzuRelated: The military world represented in The Art of War continued into this later era.

• Chinese classicsRelated: Many influential philosophical texts took shape amid its rival courts and schools.

• Confucian classicsNarrower topic: Many texts later treated as classics took shape amid its competing schools and political upheaval.

• Bamboo AnnalsRelated: The manuscript is generally associated with this period, when rival states preserved competing histories.

• DaoNarrower topic: The period's competing schools gave early accounts of Dao their setting.

• Qu YuanNarrower topic: Qu Yuan served Chu during the political rivalries that shaped his career.

• Hundred Schools of ThoughtBroader topic: Intellectual debate intensified as rival states sought effective systems of rule.

• Shang YangNarrower topic: Competition among rival kingdoms made Qin’s centralizing reforms politically consequential.

• XunziNarrower topic: Xunzi wrote amid the political fragmentation and intellectual competition of this period.

• Zuo ZhuanBroader topic: The work’s accounts of earlier state rivalry illuminate political patterns that intensified later.

• ChuRelated: Chu’s greatest territorial power and its defeat belong to this era.

• Five PhasesNarrower topic: Competing intellectual schools elaborated the phase framework during this era.

• Chinese reunificationNarrower topic: It shows the fragmented political order that Qin unification ended.

• Han FeiNarrower topic: Its military and political competition shaped the problems Han Fei sought to solve.

• Zhao (state)Narrower topic: Zhao’s formation and fall bookend this era’s struggle for supremacy.

• Battle of ChangpingNarrower topic: The battle was a turning point in the era’s contest for territorial supremacy.

• Li SiNarrower topic: Li Si’s political career unfolded amid the rival states Qin ultimately conquered.

• MoziRelated: Mozi’s critiques of costly warfare addressed the conflicts that defined this era.

• Book of DocumentsNarrower topic: Many early textual forms and political ideas associated with the anthology took shape in this period.

• Eastern ZhouBroader topic: Its increasingly centralized states fought for supremacy after the older Zhou order fractured.

• Chu CiNarrower topic: Many poems are situated in the political world of competing states and courts.

• Huangdi NeijingNarrower topic: Ideas and materials associated with the classic took shape amid this era’s intellectual exchange.

• Tao Te ChingNarrower topic: Many scholars place the text’s formation amid the political upheaval and debate of this era.

• YijingRelated: Several interpretive layers associated with the classic took shape amid this period’s intellectual change.

• Bai QiNarrower topic: Its sustained competition among states created the setting for Bai Qi’s career.

• Chinese political thoughtNarrower topic: Its fragmentation and competition gave early political thinkers urgent problems of order and unification.

• Classic of Mountains and SeasRelated: Some material may preserve traditions and ideas circulating before the Han editorial period.

• Han stateNarrower topic: Han’s history unfolded amid the rivalries and state reforms defining this era.

• HuaxiaBroader topic: Warring States writers debated cultural boundaries as political identities shifted.

• Qin militaryNarrower topic: Qin military institutions developed amid sustained competition for territory and power.

• Dragon Boat FestivalNarrower topic: Qu Yuan, the figure most closely tied to the festival's popular origin story, lived during this era.

• ZiranNarrower topic: The early Daoist texts associated with ziran took shape amid this political and philosophical competition.

• Jing KeNarrower topic: The struggle between Yan and Qin formed the political setting for Jing Ke’s mission.

• King Zhaoxiang of QinNarrower topic: Zhaoxiang’s campaigns unfolded within this contest for supremacy.

• Lian PoNarrower topic: Lian Po’s military and political career unfolded amid its interstate wars.

• Shen BuhaiNarrower topic: The rival states created the administrative pressures that made Shen Buhai’s approach consequential.

• Zhuang ZhouNarrower topic: Zhuang Zhou’s life and thought belong to this era of competing schools and rulers.