| | 2 | Author: | Wang
Chong
27-97? | Add | | | Title: | Lunheng  | | | | Published: | 2003 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia Library, Modern English collection | UVA-LIB-Text | | | | Description: | Wang Ch`ung is a native of Shang-yü-hsien1
1In Shao-hsing-fu (Chekiang).
in K`uei-chi2
2Under the Han dynasty K`uei-chi comprises Chekiang, the South of Anhui,
and the North of Fukien.
. His
style is Chung Jên. His family hails from Yuan-ch`êng3
3In Ta-ming-fu (Chili).
in the Wei4
4A circuit comprising parts of Chili and Honan.
circuit. One of his clan, Sun-yi, served his whole life as a soldier,
and distinguished himself so much, that he was appointed warden
of the southern part of K uei-chi, but, when one year a disturbance
broke out, which disorganised the State, he continued to reside
there, and became a farmer and cultivator of mulberry-trees. | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| 7 | Author: | Huan
K'uan
1st cent. B.C. | Add | | | Title: | Discourses On Salt and Iron | | | | Published: | 2003 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia Library, Modern English collection | UVA-LIB-Text | | | | Description: | a. It so happened that in the sixth year of the shih-yüan era1
1In the second month of the sixth year of Chao Ti's reign according to the Ch'ienhan-shu,
ch. VII (81 B. C.). See Introduction.
an Imperial edict directed the Chancellor2
2. Chang*
*Note: References to the principal editions and commentators will be given hereafter
as Chang (Chang Chih-hsiang), Lu (Lu Wên-chao) and Wang (Wang Hsien-ch'ien). The
various editors are discussed under "Editions of the Yen T'ieh Lun" in the Introduction.
inserts a note based upon T'ien Ch'ien-ch'iu's
biography to prove that T'ien was the "Chancellor" of the debate; also known as
.
and the Imperial secretaries3
3: Yü-shih, i.e., Sang Hung-yang , the "Lord Grand Secretary",
and his assistants. Son of a shop-keeper of Loyang, he was made a at the
age of thirteen due to his ability in "mental arithmetic" . In 110 B.C. he
was promoted . For his biography, cf. Ch'ien-han-shu, XXIV, 6.
to confer with the recommended Worthies and Literati,4
4: the Worthies and Literati who took part in the
debate had been selected and recommended in the preceding year, (Ch'ien-han-shu, ch. VII).
Persons so designated were first called upon to discuss official affairs in the 11th month
of the second year of Wên Ti's reign. See the edict in Ch'ien-han-shu, ch. IV., where
the Emperor summons them to .
and to enquire of them as to the rankling grievances among the
people.5
5; thus the actual subject for discussion was not specifically
"the salt and iron monopolies", as indicated in the title of the work. | | | Similar Items: | Find |
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