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Based on the political changes, academic thoughts, and rural-village society, Liang’s Southern Song Views of Wang Anshi and His New Policies: At and Away from Court surveys multifarious evaluations of Wang Anshi during different periods of the Southern Song Dynasty, analyzing the rise and fall of Wang’s Xinxue and Cheng Yi’s Daoxue. This monograph further scrutinizes the late Southern Song prophecies and huaben related to Wang Anshi. Meanwhile, it thoroughly explores various issues, in particular with the detailed analysis of political changes, education, and the civil service examination system during the Southern Song. Therefore, this book not only systematically incorporates previous related research but also offers the author’s original insights derived from relevant historical materials. This is definitely a worth-reading reference book for scholars who aspire to undertake their research in the history of the Southern Song.
