Fan Li

499 BC–447 BC

early 5th-century BC Chinese political and military advisor

politician · entrepreneur · philosopher

Born in Chu

Contemporaries

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• Confucius (550 BC–478 BC)
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• Herodotus (483 BC–424 BC)
• Euripides (480 BC–406 BC)
• Aeschylus (524 BC–455 BC)
• Heraclitus (534 BC–470 BC)
• Pericles (493 BC–428 BC)

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