A Study on The Historical Essays of Wang Anshi

2019 ◽  
Vol 28 ◽  
pp. 85-104
Author(s):  
Heon pil Oh
Keyword(s):  
Wang Anshi

Foreshadowing Major Reforms

2020 ◽  
pp. 48-72
Author(s):  
Chu Ming-kin
Keyword(s):  
Writing Style ◽  
Political Reforms ◽  
The University ◽  
Wang Anshi

Chapter 2 considers the extent to which the Imperial University inherited earlier trajectories of development to lay the foundation for future political reforms. Ouyang Xiu’s high-handedness in banning the Imperial University writing style (taixue ti 太學體) on the departmental examination (shengshi 省試), I would argue, represents a response to the pluralistic intellectual atmosphere at the University that the lecturers Hu and Sun had pushed to newer heights. The manner in which Ouyang advanced his intellectual agendas in the dual arenas of examination and education very likely inspired Wang Anshi to adopt similarly high-handed tactics two decades later.

Debate: Wang Anshi and Confucian public management—a rejoinder

2015 ◽  
Vol 35 (4) ◽  
pp. 253-254 ◽  
Author(s):  
Caichen Ma ◽  
Yunxiao Xu ◽  
James L. Chan
Keyword(s):  
Public Management ◽  
Wang Anshi

scholarly journals The Economy of The Song Dynasty or The Experience of Failed Modernization: The Boundaries of Institutional Corridors

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (4) ◽  
pp. 101-111
Author(s):  
Maria Kruglova ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Song Dynasty ◽  
Institutional Environment ◽  
Integrated Approach ◽  
Economic Situation ◽  
Confucian Ethics ◽  
The Song Dynasty ◽  
Wang Anshi

The article contributes to institutional matrices theory (Kirdina, 2011). On the reforms carried out in China during the Song Dynasty in the second half of the XI century, the hypothesis of the existence of so-called "institutional corridors" is considered. The "institutional corridor" implies a space limited by a set of certain institutions that define the principles of decision-making and the boundaries of institutional environment reform. The article briefly describes the economic situation of China during the Song dynasty, analyzes the main reforms carried out by the first Minister of the empire Wang Anshi and the reasons for their failure. The concept of jing ji is analyzed. Jing ji assumes an integrated approach to regulating the economy in China, based on Confucian ethics' moral and ethical concepts. The concept of jing ji has become the main one in regulating the economy in China. It is concluded that Confucian ideology during the implementation of the Wang Anshi reforms became the defining boundary of the "institutional corridor" of the variable that predetermined the failure of the reforms. The reforms of Wang Anshi, often called a Proto-Keynesian, went beyond the ideological "institutional corridor" and were therefore doomed to failure.

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