Perhaps Hive account@patriamreminisci doesn't know that there were such thinkers in ancient China.😄

Oh I do know they had such thinkers. But nobody listened to them. The emperors made sure of that.😅

The books I would cite as sources for this are China's Culture by Shi Zhongwen and Bully of Asia by Stephen W. Mosher, if my book collection had not been buried under rubble by artillery barrages from China's Russian vassals. However, since my copies of those are not on hand I can't cite page numbers or quotations, so a simple summary will have to suffice.
Among the schools of thought you mentioned, there were two that were written larger upon China's history than the others: Confucianism, and Legalism. Essentially, the emperors liked the tenets of Legalism because it held that there was no higher authority than the State (and the Emperor WAS the State). So what they did was created a system of nominally Confucian values (Confucian on paper at least) that were essentially "the steel fist of legalism clothed in the silk glove of Confucianism." Hence, Confucian philosophy, skewed in favor of slavish devotion to authority and an absence of individualism, became the official school of thought of almost every dynasty.
Of course there were exceptions, but both the Chinese and foreigners acknowledged this "society over the individual" trend in China's history.

In brief, China is what America would be in a parallel timeline where Hamilton's speeches were used to justify the construction of a government identical to the British Empire we broke away from.

However, I will say that your East/West comparisons are always insightful, and this post is a fine example. You have a gift for looking at things from a different angle than most Westerners (or most East Asians, for that matter).