Mozi

AVI has a link to a Spengler article which offers to explain Chinese governance policies as a consequence of its geography and formation: bottom line is that something as critical as flood control has been impossible without central organization and control for at least a couple of thousand years. China isn't an organic entity, and doesn't act like it.

OK, it's a plausible model. I'm not sure his comparison with Rome is accurate.

Along the way "Spengler" wrote "Chinese philosophy focuses on acceptance, hierarchical loyalty, or adherence to authority, in its respective guises of Taoism, Confucianism, and Legalism."

Back when I was in grad school I tried to read Mencius. (I didn't finish the book; see "grad school" above.) He spent a fair chunk of ink blasting a different philosophy, not one of the famous schools, called Mohism. Its characteristic theme was "universal love," or "impartial love."

I looked it up.

It's a curious confection. Apparently the school rented themselves out as philosophical advisors to rulers (as did the Confucians), but also for designing fortifications. Mozi held that "since development of music involves man's power, it reduces production of food; furthermore, appreciation of music results in less time for administrative works. This overdevelopment eventually results in shortage of food, as well as anarchy." This sounds like a dislike for ostentatious events more than for playing a flute, but I never finished his treatise and can't swear to that. And he was big on frugality; without which you could not have contentment and the material wealth and population growth he regarded as the marks of a good society.

From Wikipedia

Law and order was an important aspect of Mozi's philosophy. He compared the carpenter, who uses standard tools to do his work, with the ruler, who might not have any standards by which to rule at all. The carpenter is always better off when depending on his standard tools, rather than on his emotions. Ironically, as his decisions affect the fate of an entire nation, it is even more important that a ruler maintains a set of standards, and yet he has none. These standards cannot originate from man, since no man is perfect; the only standards that a ruler uses have to originate from Heaven, since only Heaven is perfect. That law of Heaven is Love.

Not agape, however. Similarities to Christian ideas are only superficial.