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- ↑ Gōngzǐ (公子) literally means "the lord's son", "the young lord" or "the lordling", indicating the name bearer being a son of a ruler of a client state.
- ↑ Period of the Warring States
- ↑ Biographies of Lord Pingyuan and Yu Qing 是時齊有孟嘗，魏有信陵，楚有春申，故爭相傾以待士。
- ↑ Biography of Lord Chunshen 春申君既相楚，是時齊有孟嘗君，趙有平原君，魏有信陵君，方爭下士，招致賓客，以相傾奪，輔國持權。
Works cited
- Lewis, Mark Edward (1999), "Warring States Political History", in Michael Loewe; Edward L. Shaughnessy (eds.), The Cambridge History of Ancient China: From the Origins of Civilization to 222 B.C., Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, pp. 587–650, ISBN 0-521-47030-7.