Wang Zhong (Qing dynasty)

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][3]

Wang Zhong
Chinese汪中
Hanyu PinyinWāng Zhōng
Wade–GilesWang1
 Chung1

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
  3. [https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=dmCZmnFBypEC&pg=PA656 The Illustrated Encyclopedia of Confucianism: N-Z by Rodney Leon Taylor, Howard Yuen Fung Choy
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