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Wang Zhong (Qing dynasty)

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Wang Zhong (1745-1794) was a Qing-dynasty Chinese scholar from Jiangdu District in Yangzhou.[1] He has been characterised as "the most arrogant scholar of his age".[2]

Works

  • Guangling dui (廣陵對, Answers about Guangling), 1787
  • Shu xue (Records of Learning), 1792
  • Guangling tongdian (Comprehensive Standard Work of Guanling), published posthumously, 1823

References

  1. ^ Marc Winter, 'The Universe in a Nutshell: Wang Zhong's Essay 'Dialogue about Guanling' (Guanling dui, 1787)', Yangshou: a Place in Literature: The Local in Chinese Cultural History, ed. Roland Altenburger and Margaret B. Wan, University of Hawaii Press, 2015, pp.87ff
  2. ^ Weijing Lu, Uxorilocal Marriage among Qing Literati, Late Imperial China, Vol. 19, No. 2 (December 1998), pp.64-110