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The idea of the “just war” is a familiar one to Westerners, so much so that we are inclined to assign it an exclusively Western provenance.1 However, the Chinese have also long espoused in writing the belief that resorting to “righteous armaments” or “just arms” (yibing) in order to prosecute war is sometimes inescapable and thus wholly justified.2 Chinese notions of the “just war” indeed emerged at as early a stage in history as the beginning of the period of Warring States (ca. 480–220 BCE), when the concept no doubt paralleled the rising expectations of the emergence of the universal kingship that was used to anchor it.3 By the time of the succeeding Qin (221–306 BCE) dynastic period, we can assume that the basic assumptions supporting the idea of the “just war” were already well in place and extremely pervasive.
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Wyatt, D.J. (2008). In Pursuit of the Great Peace: Wang Dan and the Early Song Evasion of the “Just War” Doctrine. In: Wyatt, D.J. (eds) Battlefronts Real and Imagined. The New Middle Ages. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230611719_5
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