EDITOR’S ABSTRACT This article gives an overview of Shang Yang portrayals in four stages: from Han Fei’s sympathetic yet balanced assessment, passing over a variety of conflicting Han views, skipping through “the two millennia of vilification” to Zhang Taiyan’s (1869–1936) rediscovery of Shang Yang, and ending up at the Shang Yang fervor of the 1970s. Zeng shows how the figure of Shang Yang keeps popping up with a certain regularity, inciting conflicts about his legacy. He also argues that at each flare of the debate, what was really at stake was not a mere assessment of the long gone Warring States-period Qin reformer, but of the then current policies that needed to be indirectly addressed.

中文翻译：

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商Yang作为历史人格和象征

编者的话本文从四个方面对商阳作了一个概述：从韩非的同情而平衡的评估，跳过各种相互矛盾的汉族观点，跳过“两千年的侮辱”到张太炎（1869-1936年）的重新发现。并最终出现在1970年代的上阳热潮中。曾梵​​志展示了商Yang的身影如何以一定的规律性不断出现，并引发了关于他的遗产的冲突。他还争辩说，在辩论的各个方面，真正危在旦夕的不仅仅是对战国时期秦改革家的评估，而是对当时需要间接解决的当前政策的评估。