His stubbornship : prime minister Wang Anshi (1021--1086), reformer and poet
by Jonathan Pease
Bok Engelsk 2021 · Biografier
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| Originaltittel | [ His stubbornship ]
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| Utgitt | BRILL
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| Omfang | XXX, 647 sider : illustrasjoner, kart
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| Opplysninger | Foreword: The Stone Ox Grotto (AD 1080) -- Service -- Leaving Jiangxi (1021-1036) -- Marriage-- Yangshou and Yin County (1037-1050 -- Hidden mountains-- Qianshan (1050-1054) -- The Herds Office, Changzhou Prefect, Jiangdong Judge (1054-1058) -- Kaifeng again-- drafter of edicts (1059-1063) -- Sages and crooks-- Wang's thought in his early forties (1063-1066) -- Reform -- Shenzong clears the deck (1067-1068) -- Associate Councillor-- the reforms begin (1069-1070) -- Nation rich, army strong-- Grand Councillor (1071-1072) -- Trouble at the gate (1073) -- Watcher on the ramparts (1074-1075) -- Payback-- Wang's second term (1075-1076) -- Retirement -- Halfway Hill (1076-1084) -- Ghosts -- Words -- Company -- Walk where it is cool -- Sand-grains in the sea -- Afterword: Fox power -- Appendix 1: Family trees -- Appendix 2: Friends and associates -- Appendix 3: Poem locator.. - "After piloting an emperor the age of a college student through China's most drastic government reforms before the modern era, Wang Anshi retreated to his Halfway Hill villa at Nanjing, where in late middle age he became one of the Northern Song dynasty's three or four most innovative poets. He redirected the craft of composing high-stakes policy papers into lighter-than-air evocations of clear-eyed grief, sensuous Buddhism, and intricate reactions to rain on the river or donkey-riding up Bell Mountain. Acrimony over his redesigned government, which he lived just long enough to see totally dismantled, remains relevant to Chinese politics and economics. Published during his thousand-year jubilee, this first full English biography since 1937 draws on Wang's essays, poems, and his vivid, seldom-explored throne-room diary"--
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| Sjanger | Biografier : (NO-TrBIB)HUME01057
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| Geografisk emneord | China - History . - Kina : (NO-TrBIB)HUME01955
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| ISBN | 90-04-46925-7
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