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In: His Stubbornship: Prime Minister Wang Anshi (1021--1086), Reformer and Poet

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Jonathan Pease

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Wang’s inscription at the Stone Ox Grotto, carved between late 1051 and early 1054. The four vertical lines of the poem, the height of a small child, are arranged left to right, following the direction of the artesian stream at the bottom (about a foot wide and four inches deep). Two-word signature on the right, “Duke of Jing,” shows signs of having replaced a three-word signature (presumably “Wang Anshi”) that was ground off sometime after 1080, when he received the title.

Photo by author, October 1990

Series: Sinica Leidensia, Volume: 153

Front Matter

Part 1 Service

Part 2 Reform

Part 3 Retirement

Appendices

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