Mozi

Interesting expression of the Mohist school which preached brotherly love and the simple life (justly criticizing Confucian spending on rituals), but also practiced defensive war.
Striking that this theistic love ethic died out in China while similar ideas dominated in the west.

Burton Watson is the scholar for translating accessible versions in English of the Chinese classics, and with the Mo Tzu, he again delivers. Though often repetitive and somewhat bland in rhetoric (though this as Watson says is part of the original text and not just translations), the Watson translation makes this lesser-known philosopher easily accessible for both scholar and lay-man alike.