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Wang An-shih

The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
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 graduated land tax, cheap government credit, and reduction of the forced labor levy. Wang revived government price and commodity controls, local police administration, and the militia system. Followers of Wang competed with conservative bureaucratic opponents for high office after his resignation. ... Read more
Wang An-shih
Encyclopedia of World Biography Wang An-shih Wang An-shih (1021-1086) was the most famous reformer ... but the more extensive program of Wang An-shih in the 1070s in the end antagonized most of his illustrious contemporaries. Wang An-shih was born on Dec. 18, 1021, in ... Read more
Wang Ching-wei
Encyclopedia of World Biography Wang Ching-wei The Chinese revolutionary leader Wang Ching-wei (1883-1944) was an ... Canton in a minor gentry family, Wang Ching-wei was a brilliant student ... revolutionaries and Y ü an Shih-k'ai over the new government organization in 1912. Wang married Ch'en Pi-ch ü ... After ... Read more

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The Historian; 6/22/1998