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1Author:  Huan K'uan 1st cent. B.C.Requires cookie*
 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.
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