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Wang An-shih
Wang An-shih , 1021-86, Chinese Sung dynasty statesman. As a chief councilor (1069-74, 1075-76) he directed sweeping administrative and fiscal reforms that drew strong conservative opposition. His aim was to strengthen the central government, but the poor also benefited from reforms such as the grad... Read more
Wang Yang-ming
Wang Yang-ming , 1472-1529, Chinese philosopher. He developed an idealist interpretation of Confucianism that denied the rationalist dualism of the orthodox philosophy of Chu Hsi . Wang believed that universal moral law is innate in man and discoverable through self-cultivation. In contrast to th... Read more
Wang Ching-wei
Wang Ching-wei , 1883-1944, Chinese revolutionary and political leader. A supporter of Sun Yat-sen , Wang was sentenced (1910) to life imprisonment for attempting to assassinate the regent of China. Freed in 1912, he studied in France until 1917, when he became personal assistant to Sun. Upon Sun's... Read more
Wang Wei
Wang Wei , 699-759, Chinese poet. He was an extremely versatile man, being a musician and painter as well as a poet. He wrote quatrains almost exclusively; these verses portray quiet scenes like those depicted in the few surviving paintings attributed to him. Wang Wei's delicate landscapes, famed fo... Read more
Wang Mang
Wang Mang , 45 BC-AD 23, Chinese Han dynasty regent who usurped the throne and ruled (AD 8-23) as emperor of the Hsin [new] court, carrying out many reforms. Although he portrayed his government as a revival of the idealized state of early Chou times, his reforms were aimed essentially at streng... Read more
Thimphu
Thimphu or Thimbu , city (1997 est. pop. 45,000), capital and largest city of Bhutan, W Bhutan, on the Wang Chu. The Tashichoedzong, a fortress monastery dating from the 13th cent., has been the seat of Bhutan's government since 1952. At the northern end of the valley where Thimphu is located ar... Read more
Gang of Four
Gang of Four term of opprobrium given by the Chinese Communist authorities to four persons held responsible for the excesses of the Cultural Revolution (1966-69). They were also accused of trying to seize power after the deaths (1976) of Mao Zedong and Zhou Enlai . The most notable of the Gang... Read more
Mao Tun
Mao Tun or Mao Dun , pseud. of She Yen-ping , 1896-1981, Chinese novelist and Minister of Culture (1949-65). His fiction offers a sympathetic portrayal of working-class life and praise of revolution. Midnight (1933, tr. 1957), his most widely read work, is a naturalistic novel exploring in ... Read more
Ssu-ma Kuang
Ssu-ma Kuang , 1018-86, Chinese statesman and historian of the Northern Sung dynasty. He edited the monumental Tzu-chih t'ung-chien [the comprehensive mirror for aid in government], a chronicle of Chinese history from 403 BC to AD 959. The title indicates the belief that history can serve the pres... Read more
Kurt Gödel
Kurt Gödel , 1906-78, American mathematician and logician, b. Brünn (now Brno, Czech Republic), grad. Univ. of Vienna (Ph.D., 1930). He came to the United States in 1940 and was naturalized in 1948. He was a member of the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, until 1953, when he became ... Read more

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Wang Anshi
Book article from: A Dictionary of World History Wang Anshi (1021–86) Chinese statesman, chief councillor to the SONG (1069–76). He introduced major financial...
Ch'eng Hao
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of World Religions ...formed the neo-Confucianism of the Sung dynasty. Both of them opposed the far-reaching reform programme of Wang An-shih (Wang Anshi) (1021–86): Ch'eng Hao was dismissed in 1080 and went into retirement in Lo-yang; Cheng...

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No going back, or, youthful bravado at the Baochan Mountain Cave.
Magazine article from: The Journal of the American Oriental Society; 4/1/2006; ; 700+ words ; Wang Anshi's travelogue about the Baochan Mountain...plain sight within a single word. Could Wang's stern lecture contain remnants of an...they were doing there. The year was 1054. Wang Anshi [TEXT NOT REPRODUCIBLE IN ASCII] (1021...
Alfreda Murck. Poetry and Painting in Song China: The Subtle Art of Dissent.(Book Review)
Magazine article from: China Review International; 9/22/2002; ; 700+ words ; ...interweaves background concerning the New Policies of Wang Anshi (1021-1086), and the controversy they sparked...1072 coinciding neatly with the recent implementation of Wang Anshi's policies, Murck goes beyon
Taxing Heaven's Storehouse: Horses, Bureaucrats, and the Destruction of the Sichuan Tea Industry, 1074-1224.
Magazine article from: The Journal of the American Oriental Society; 1/1/1993; ; 700+ words ; ...integration. Part two opens with Wang Anshi's theory of bureaucratic entrepreneurship...profitable nor efficient or reliable. Wang Anshi invited Xue Xiang to experiment with...the Tibetan horse sellers. It was Wang Shao who after 1070 succeeded in...
Nature and Self: A Study of the Poetry of Su Dongpo with Comparisons to the Poetry of William Wordsworth.
Magazine article from: The Journal of the American Oriental Society; 7/1/1992; ; 700+ words ; ...Ouyang Xiu and a few other contemporary writers" (p. 105, . . . presumably Liu Yong, Mei Yaochen, Wang Yucheng, Lin Bu, Su Shunqin, Wang Anshi, Sima Guang). The book apparently never had the opportunity to be professionally edited; this...
Banking on the poor can help hungry nation to blossom
Newspaper article from: China Daily; 10/23/2006; ; 700+ words ; ...money was offered at a mutually agreed interest rate. Wang Anshi (1021-86), the reform-minded prime minister of the...imperial financial system and render credit to all farmers. Wang had a plan of changing his office into some sort of a national...
Writer retells Song Dynasty chronicles
Newspaper article from: China Daily; 2/2/2006; ; 700+ words ; ...between leading statesmen of the Song, the great reformer Wang Anshi (1020-86) and his political opponent Sima Guang (1018...to power. "From the point of view of our era, many of Wang's reform measures are quite modern," Li explains.
Xiao-bin Ji. Politics and Conservatism in Northern Song China: The Career and Thought of Sima Guang (A.D. 1019-1086).(Book review)
Magazine article from: China Review International; 3/22/2006; ; 700+ words ; ...Guang was brought to power near the end of his life by Empress Dowager Gao with the intent of undoing the New Policies of Wang Anshi. Sima succeeded in doing so but the results were reduced government income, giving territory to Xixia to buy peace...
Something to crow about
Newspaper article from: China Daily; 2/5/2005; 700+ words ; ...220- 280) whose image, featuring a feather fan, is often seen in movies and TV series. Great poet and politician Wang Anshi (1021-1086) of the Song Dynasty (960-1279), "Chinese Shakespeare" Tang Xianzu (1550-1616), the most gifted...
Yang Shuhui and Yang Yunqin, translators. Feng Menglong, compiler. Stories to Caution the World: A Ming Dynasty Collection, Volume 2.(Book review)
Magazine article from: China Review International; 9/22/2006; ; 700+ words ; ...well-known stories that have already been translated into English, tales such as those about the historical figures Wang Anshi (nos. 3 and 4), Li Bai (no. 9), and Judge Bao (no. 13), as well as celebrated stories with a Ming dynasty...
China: A New History.(Brief Article)
Magazine article from: The Historian; 1/1/1993; ; 700+ words ; ...a self-confident scholar at the end of a long and successful career who sees no need to use dry, fusty language. Wang Anshi's reforms were "shot down"; Ming Hongwu was the "civil and military CEO of the realm" (97,130). He delivers...