 Han dynasty archivists associated seven figures with the “School of Names”: Deng Xi, Yin Wen, Hui Shi, Gongsun Long, Cheng-gong Sheng, Huang Gong, and Mao Gong (Han History 30, “Bibliographical Treatise”). To these we can add one further figure, Huan Tuan, whom China’s earliest history of thought, “Under Heaven,” Book 33 of the Zhuangzi, pairs with Gongsun Long. About the last four of these men virtually nothing is  known.[1]  About the first four, we know more, but not much. There is little first-hand evidence about what they thought, since nearly none of the writings attributed to them by Han bibliographers survive. With the exception of a few brief texts attributed to Gongsun Long, everything we know comes from quotations or anecdotes in other texts, including the Zhuangzi, Xunzi, Annals of Lü Buwei, Hanfeizi, and several Han dynasty anthologies. These second-hand accounts typically date from long after the lifetime of the figures they describe, and they may be embellished or dramatized, warped to fit their writers’ agenda, or even fictional. 