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	Wang Anshi - Search Results - MSN Encarta
		Wang Anshi (1021-1086), Chinese imperial official, chief councillor (1070-1076) to the Song Emperor Shenzong.
		Wang Anshi: Chinese poet and prose writer, best known as a governmental reformer who implemented his unconventional idealism through the New Laws, or New Policies, of 106976.
		WANG ANSHI (1021-1086) Wang Anshi was born to a modest family with a history of government service.
	encarta.msn.com /Wang_Anshi.html (162 words)

	Wang_Anshi
		Wang Anshi From Sterwiki framedWang An-Schi Wang Anshi (çå®ç³, *1021 / â 1086) war ein Reformer in der Blutezeit des alten China, zur Zeit der Song-Dynastie.
		Wang Anshi, dem heute gelegentlich das Etikett Staatssozialist angehangt wird, sah eine der Urssachen fur die Misere des Staates in der ungeeigneten Beamtenschaft.
		Wang Anshi konnte sich bei Hofe nicht halten, wurde 1076 verbannt und 1078 wieder eingesetzt.
	www.ihrenachrichten.de /nachrichten/Wikipedia.org/2005/02/10/Wang_Anshi.html (598 words)

	Wang Anshi - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Wang believed that the state was responsible for providing its citizens the essentials for a decent living standard: "The state should take the entire management of commerce, industry, and agriculture into its own hands, with a view to succoring the working classes and preventing them from being ground into the dust by the rich."
		Although Wang had the alliance of such prominent court figures as Shen Kuo, imperial scholar-officials such as Su Dongpo and Ouyang Xiu bitterly opposed these reforms on the grounds of tradition.
		They believed Wang's reforms were against the moral fundamentals of the Two Emperors and would therefore prevent the Song from experiencing the prosperity and peace of the ancients.
	www.enpsychlopedia.org /psypsych/Wang_Anshi (947 words)

	Wang Anshi - China History Forum, Chinese History Forum
		Wang Anshi (王安石) was born in 1021 in Jiangxi Linchuan.
		Wang Anshi's reform was focused on economic reform, this include establishing the method on equal distribution (均输法), the law on Qingmiao (青苗法), Agriculture and Waterworks law, the law on freedom from corvee, the law on easy market, the equal farm-tax law.
		Wang Anshi was impatient and with the lack of support, his reform thus became a failure.
	www.chinahistoryforum.com /index.php?showtopic=15393 (2756 words)

	English Channel
		Wang Anshi lived in a time when Northern Song Dynasty was wrought with contradictions after enjoying 100 years of peace.
		As a reformer, Wang Anshi met with widespread opposition from bureaucrats in the government.
		Wang Anshi returned to Nanjing to live in Banmuyuan where he led a peaceful life of a poverty£stricken poet and scholar.
	www.cctv.com /english/TouchChina/GloryofChineseCivilization/HistoricalCelebrities/LitterateurArtists/20020806/100071.html (437 words)

	AD 1068 - 1085: Wang Anshi implements New Policies \| Chinese 110 \| Timeline
		In these reforms, Wang Anshi attempted to change the way land was assessed when levying taxes so that the count would be more accurate.
		Wang Anshi wanted to shift the tax burden from the shoulders of peasants, as well as make advancements in the agriculture, all in order to increase the standard of living for all subjects.
		Wang Anshi’s ideas were ahead of his time, and could be considered an early form of capitalism; certainly, they were radical in comparison to those of the staunch traditionalists.
	www.wellesley.edu /Chinese/Chin110/Timeline/StudentResponses/Song/1068_anshi_new_policies.html (290 words)

	Wang Anshi - Search Results - MSN Encarta
		Wang Anshi (1021-1086), Chinese imperial official, chief councillor (1070-1076) to the Song Emperor Shenzong.
		Like many statesmen of his day, Wang Anshi was a literary figure as well as a political reformer.
		Wang, Taylor Gun-Jin, born in 1940, Chinese-born American astronaut and physicist.
	ca.encarta.msn.com /Wang_Anshi.html (132 words)

	Wang Anshi - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Wang believed that the state was responsible for providing its citizens the essentials for a decent living standard: "The state should take the entire management of commerce, industry, and agriculture into its own hands, with a view to succoring the working classes and preventing them from being ground into the dust by the rich."
		Wang Anshi also revamped the imperial examination system so that less emphasis was placed on literary style and memorization of the Chinese classic texts and more on practical knowledge, irking the Confucian scholar gentry and state bureaucracy.
		They believed Wang's reforms were against the moral fundamentals of the Two Emperors and would therefore prevent the Song from experiencing the prosperity and peace of the ancients.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Wang_Anshi (463 words)

	Wang (surname) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Wang was one of the most powerful clans in the Chinese commanderies on the Korean Peninsula.
		The Kaesong Wang lineage traces its ancestry to the Goryeo rulers.
		Wang Dun, ambitious militant of the Eastern Jin Dynasty
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Wang_(surname) (661 words)

	Wang Anshi (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Wang Anshi (王安石 pinyin wang2 an1 shi2; 1021 - 1086) was a Chinese economist, statesman under the Song Empire
		Wang Anshi, a remarkably modern thinker, believed that the state was responsible for providing its citizens the essentials for a decent living standard.
		Wang An-shih also revamped the state examination system so that less emphasis was placed on literary style and memorization of the Chinese classic texts and more practical knowledge, irking the Confucian scholar gentry and state bureaucracy.
	www.teachersparadise.com /ency/en/wikipedia/w/wa/wang_anshi.html (337 words)

	Wang Anshi at AllExperts
		Wang believed that the state was responsible for providing its citizens the essentials for a decent living standard: "The state should take the entire management of commerce, industry, and agriculture into its own hands, with a view to succoring the working classes and preventing them from being ground into the dust by the rich."
		Wang Anshi also revamped the imperial examination system so that less emphasis was placed on literary style and memorization of the Chinese classic texts and more on practical knowledge, irking the Confucian scholar gentry and state bureaucracy.
		They believed Wang's reforms were against the moral fundamentals of the Two Emperors and would therefore prevent the Song from experiencing the prosperity and peace of the ancients.
	en.allexperts.com /e/w/wa/wang_anshi.htm (519 words)

	Wang Anshi
		Wang Anshi (王安石, *1021 / † 1086) war ein Reformer in der Blütezeit des alten China, zur Zeit der Song-Dynastie.
		Wang Anshi, dem heute gelegentlich das Etikett Staatssozialist angehängt wird, sah eine der Ursachen für die Misere des Staates in der ungeeigneten Beamtenschaft.
		Wang Anshi konnte sich bei Hofe nicht halten, wurde 1076 verbannt und 1078 wieder eingesetzt.
	www.weblexikon.de /Wang_An-schi.html (636 words)

	Disputes between Wang AnShi, Sima Guang and Su Shi - China History Forum, Chinese History Forum
		Wang Anshi was a reformist Confucian who wanted an activist role for the state in order to raise revenue to strengthen the army.
		Wang was of a newer southern gentry elite that preferred egalitarian exam policies, and wanted to replace the emphasis on poetry in the exams with more practical questions on administrative policy.
		Wang AnShi's Qing Miao Fa was a scheme to provide loans for these farmers to tide over the period of hardship, to be repaid by the next harvest, with interest of approximately 20%.
	www.chinahistoryforum.com /index.php?showtopic=2887 (1727 words)

	Shen_Kua biography
		Wang Anshi was one of this new breed of administrator, who progressed through ability rather than through patronage, and followed Confucian ideals.
		Wang Anshi had entered the central government in 1060 but he was not particularly favoured while Jen-tsung was emperor.
		Wang's opponents in government saw Shen as someone travelling round the country obtaining support for Wang's reform programme and they began to conspire against him.
	www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk /~history/Biographies/Shen_Kua.html (2482 words)

	English Channel
		Wang Anshi was born in Lingchuan, Jiangxi and grew up beside the Fu River.
		Wang Anshi lived in a time when Northern Song Dynasty was wrought with contradictions after enjoying 100 years of peace.
		Wang Anshi returned to Nanjing to live in Banmuyuan where he led a peaceful life of a poverty£stricken poet and scholar.
	www.cctv.com.cn /english/TouchChina/GloryofChineseCivilization/HistoricalCelebrities/Statesmen/20020806/100069.html (435 words)

	Chinese History - Song Dynasty å® event history (www.chinaknowledge.de)
		Wang Anshi tried to balance demand and supply for important commodities by special transport agents (fayunshi ç¼éä½¿) with an adapted supply system (junshufa åè¼¸æ³•) that organized the provision of commodities to the capital according the the real demands.
		Although Cai Jing nominally reinstalled the methods and regulations of Wang Anshiâs reforms, the implementation of the regulations in practice was less than perfect, and in fact, not much had changed for the social groups that possessed most of the arable lands.
		Wang Fu, Li Yan, Lian Shicheng, Cai Jing and Tong Guan were all put to death or died during their flight.
	www.chinaknowledge.de /History/Song/song-event.html (8681 words)

	Wang Anshi - Search Results - ninemsn Encarta
		Wang Anshi was a literary figure as well as a political reformer.
		In 1069 a young Song emperor appointed the able Wang Anshi as his chief counsellor.
		Wang conceived a series of sweeping reforms designed to increase...
	au.encarta.msn.com /Wang_Anshi.html (89 words)

	Wang Anshi - Encyclopedia.com
		Wang Anshi (1021–86) Chinese statesman, chief councillor to the SONG (1069–76).
		Wang Anshi's Legalistic Confucianism Wang Anshi (1021-1086) was a renowned philosopher and politician...
		Export commodity and regional currency: the role of Chinese copper coins in the Melaka Straits, tenth to fourteenth centuries.
	www.encyclopedia.com /doc/1O48-WangAnshi.html (1059 words)

	Wang Anshi - MSN Encarta
		Wang Anshi or Wang An-shih (1021-1086), Chinese imperial official, chief councillor (1070-1076) to the Song Emperor Shenzong.
		Wang centralized financial control, extended low-interest loans to the peasants, reassessed land taxes, and made them payable by public labor.
		Strenuously opposed by the landowning class and traditional bureaucrats, who obstructed his program at every turn, he was forced to resign in 1076, and after Shenzong's death his reforms were abolished.
	encarta.msn.com /encyclopedia_761562531/Wang_Anshi.html (100 words)

	Wang Anshi - Encyclopedia.com
		[or Wang An-shih] (born 1021, Linchuan, Jiangsu province, China—died 1086, Jiangning, Jiangsu) Chinese poet and government reformer of the Song dynasty.
		Wang's reforms were unpopular, and he was forced to resign in 1074.
		After the emperor's death an antireform clique came to power and dismantled Wang's reforms by the time of his death shortly afterward.
	www.encyclopedia.com /doc/1B1-382301.html (1107 words)

	turbo_swami: Song Dynasty Reform
		Wang Anshi was criticized by other Confucians such as Sima Guang for being anti-Confucian in the practice of promoting common wealth through profit.
		Wang Anshi proposed granting government loans to peasants that would allow peasants to produce specialized crops such as sugar cane and silk worms, without having to rely on landlords.
		Wang Anshi believed that the Song dynasty was far removed from the era of the Sage Kings and the old system could not handle China’s large population of around 100 million by the year 1100.
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	Fujian Anxi Nanqiao Tea Group (Zhongshan) Branch (Site not responding. Last check: )
		One of the ancient greatest literati, Wang Anshi had a serious disease in his old age, which was difficult to cure.
		Because Su Dongpu's hometown was in Sichuan province, which passed the Gorge, Wang Anshi asked him to bring a pot of water for him.
		Then with a smile, Wang said:" It was not from the middle of the gorge but the down of it." Su was surprised, because the water was actually got from the down part.
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	Biography of Wang Anshih (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Wang Anshi (王安石) (1021 - 1086) was a Chinese economist, statesman and poet of the Song Dynasty who attempted some controversial major socio-economic reforms.
		Accordingly, under his direction the state initiated an agricultural loans measure to relieve the farming peasants of the burden of interest extracted from them by moneylenders, and to thereby prevent a consequent lack of capital from impeding agricultural development.
		Wang An-shih also revamped the state examination system so that less emphasis was placed on literary style and memorization of the Chinese classic texts and more on practical knowledge, irking the Confucian scholar gentry and state bureaucracy.
	biography-2.qardinalinfo.com /w/Wang_Anshih.html (388 words)

	EAA Horizons
		A Song Dynasty prime minister Wang Anshi once wrote the following verse: "The westerly wind visited the garden last night, and the ground is littered with gold from the scattered chrysanthemums." However, poet Su Dongpo thought chrysanthemum petals could never be blown down in this way and wrote another poem ridiculing Wang.
		On another occasion, Wang asked Su to bring some water from the middle gorge of the Yangtze River's Three Gorges, but as it happened Su was asleep when he passed through this gorge.
		Wang, however, realized the truth from the colour of the tea made from the water and brought the matter to Su's attention.
	www.eaa.org.hk /milestone/topic_jul05_03.html (446 words)

	Northern Song dynasty - History of China
		Wang Anshi countered by saying that the gifts to officials were less than in the past; Sima Guang responded that those had been truly great officials.
		Wang Anshi argued that officals had lost the ‘Dao’ of creating wealth; as chief councilor (equivalent to prime minister) under a supportive Emperor Shenzong he created a national school system to teach his interpretation of the classics.
		Wang Anshi wrote back: “In my view, I recieved my orders from the ruler, the policies were discussed in court, and executing them was delegated to the officials.
	www.melanconent.com /lib/knowl/history/china/song/north.html (1520 words)

	Wang Anshi
		Wang subscribed to a utilitarian view of literature, the function of which was to improve society.
		His prose writings, which include letters, memorials to the emperor, funerary inscriptions and descriptions of social activities, are admired for their close reasoning and simple, fluent language.
		Wang wrote more than 1500 poems, the majority of which are shi.
	www.renditions.org /renditions/authors/wangas.html (127 words)

	Wang Anshi, Sima Guang and Su Shi
		Wang Anshi (1021- 1086) was born into an ordinary landlord
		Wang Anshi was also a poet and philosopher.
		Anshi's reform was reversed, Su Shi was summoned to the capital
	www.silkroadcn.com /chinainfo/wanganshi.htm (1442 words)

	Association for Asia Research- Flowing water and still water
		When Wang Anshi heard Su Dongpo was going back to Szechuan to visit his family, he asked Su Dongpo to bring back some of that water.
		Wang Anshi asked Su Dongpo, “Is this water from the Middle Gorge?” Su Dongpo answered, “Why, yes.
		Wang Anshi said, “In Shansui Jingzhu, careful observations are noted about the properties of water in the Yangtze River.
	www.asianresearch.org /articles/1298.html (622 words)

	The major concerns of the Northern Song literati and the Southern Song literati were quite different in the three ...
		Wang Anshi, an outsider from Sichuan, emerged in 1058 as one of the most influential and radical reformers to oppose the bureaucratic families.
		When Wang assumed influence in 1068, his Green Sprout Reforms attempted to relieve the peasants’ cycle of debt by instituting ever-level granaries which were used to loan grain to cultivators, and only to be repaid after harvests.
		In “A Letter From Sima Guang to Wang Anshi,” Sima asserts that Wang’s policies are unjustified because Wang strayed away from moral principles, and instead sought to increase the state revenues through taxation and ever-level granaries for “profit” (Sima, 153).
	www.angelfire.com /bc/allan/essays/song_dynasty.htm (1776 words)

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