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926: 988:. Though the historian and the emperor continued to disagree on policies, Sima's enforced retirement proved essential for him to complete his chronological history over the following one and a half decades. Contemporary accounts relate that, in order to work more and sleep less when he was writing his great opus, the Zizhi Tongjian, he had a wooden pillow made from a log that was designed to slip from under his head whenever he rolled over. He called this Jingzhen 警枕 (Alert Pillow), and used it throughout the period of 569:, which increased government authority and spending. Sima argued that more state revenue would mean less money for farmers and that the government was immoral for competing with merchants. Somewhat counterintuitively, he emphasized the unifying role of the emperor more than the reformists; he wanted the emperor to manage the bureaucracy and control officials with rewards and punishments, while the reformists wanted to implement new policies for new problems. In response to 1041: 2123: 52: 781:
imperial edict abolished the system in the capital and its surrounding areas, with more restrictions imposed on this system in the following months. Reformist opposition to the system's abolition was weak and primarily logistical rather than ideological. Zhang Dun's call for moderate abolition was reasonable considering the shock that followed the rapid abolishment of the Baojia system.
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repercussions" and that a framework for the replacement system should be formulated first. Su Shi, Su Che's older brother, formed a third faction and proposed that the funds from the labor recruitment law should be used to buy up public lands to grant to volunteer laborers in addition to their wages. Sima did not accept dissent from either group.
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appointing him as head of the new Office of Expenditure Reduction, Sima released a scathing report that criticized the oversized bureaucracy, imperial extravagance, and an inefficient army and which called for imperial discussion rather than offering specific solutions. Shenzong quickly dissolved the
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Rulers were supposed to only determine official assignments, reward achievement, punish failure, care about their servants, have good morals, and be immune to outside influence. On a wider level, a society with clear inferior-superior roles would be stable. His deeply anti-change perspective made him
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with professional laborers funded by service exemption fees paid by the richest rural households. Similar to the market exchange law, this law primarily became a method for revenue extraction. Sima argued that the law was simply another tax imposed on the commoners. Cai Que's refusal to remove the
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The compulsory Baojia village defense system trained and enrolled nearly 7 million men across the dynasty. Sima criticized the system's detracting from agricultural productivity and its potential for creating bandits. Wang Yansou criticized the unnecessary brutality of the system. In mid-1085, an
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of China, granting full access to imperial libraries, and allocating funds for the costs of compilation, including research assistance by experienced historians such as Liu Ban (劉攽, 1022–88), Liu Shu (劉恕, 1032–78), and Fan Zuyu (范祖禹, 1041–98). After Yingzong died in 1067, Sima was invited to the
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in legitimizing dynastic succession. For Sima, dynastic succession was instead a result of power struggles; dynasties rose and fell according to consistent factors. He believed that history was a "mirror" for the present and could provide the government with historical context for their current
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biological father, and Emperor Renzong. This issue would dominate Yingzong's reign and cause political gridlock. Sima himself believed that priority should be given to Renzong since he was the emperor's ritual father. Yingzong overruled this belief and, partly due to personal affection for his
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The market exchange law established government monopolies that were intended to buy cheap products and sell dear products. However, the established agencies cornered the market in staple goods and became focused on generating revenue. Throughout 1085, executive orders forgave debt owed to the
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transformed humans from their original animal state using hierarchical order, property rights, moral instruction, and penal law. He believed that the problem with government was not in its structure, but rather in the people that ran it. He wrote multiple memorials detailing how to make the
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Nonetheless, the debate over how to remove the labor recruitment law revealed cracks in the conservative coalition. For example, Su Che (and many other conservatives who were typically closely aligned with Sima) argued that "an entire system could not be abolished overnight without serious
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For 40 years following the death of Shenzong, the reformist and conservative factions alternated control over the Song government. Both factions engaged in "ethical factionalism" as they engaged in ruthless purges against each other. An attempted coup by the reformist faction (including
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to the Xia was highly controversial and, along with 4 fortresses that were ostensibly ceded to Xia, remained a source of border tension for the following decades. The official truce was signed in 1089 and was broken by a 1096 invasion by the restored Zhang Dun.
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a political conservative (in contrast with Wang Anshi's reformism). For Sima, to be ethical was to accept one's social status, and personal cultivation meant exercising restraint; indeed Sima interpreted the "investigation of things", a fundamental tenet of the
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The green sprouts law was intended to give low-interest loans to farmers but, like many of the aforementioned policies, became a method of revenue extraction. Conservative opposition to this policy was unified and Fan Chunren, the son of
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denunciations against Wang Anshi, saying: " was self-satisfied and self-righteous, and considered himself to be unparalleled by figures past and present." Sima also blamed the Song dynasty's defeat at Yongle City during the war with the
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in 1045 did not end the Song dynasty's problems, factions developed around how to solve these issues. Conservatives like Sima Guang advocated for a smaller government budget and gradual reform. As such, Sima opposed the
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in 1071, which would become the center of the conservative opposition. This made Wang largely unopposed in government. Sima was disturbed by the New Policy's control over the dynasty's people and resources.
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on poor, glory-oriented leadership, while presenting himself as the "savior of the dynasty". As the conservative leader, he headed his coalition to demote reformist leaders to lowly
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The equal tax law was a system of land evaluation and taxation that was probably the most successful of the New Policies. The law was removed with little opposition in late 1085.
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submitted a 10,000-word memorial in 1058 detailing a system of comprehensive reform. Sima Guang did the same thing in 1061, but his proposals were more conservative.
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From the late 1060s, Sima came to assume a role as leader of what has been identified as a conservative faction at court, resolutely opposed to the
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agencies and abolished loan bureaus before abolishing the law altogether. This signaled the turning point for the reformist-conservative conflict.
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failed and aggravated the conservative faction. Sima was an old and tired man in Luoyang and was reluctant to return to the capital, but
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post after offending Empress Gao during a debate. In spring 1086, Wang Anshi died. The conservative restoration was complete.
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could thus use history as an aid to governance. His histories are structured in a way that promotes these theories.
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Money was not distributed evenly across the empire, so peasants would struggle to pay cash fees for the New Policies.
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and Su Che; this pushed him to resign as chancellor of the right and he was reappointed as the administrator of
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Wealth gaps were beneficial to both the rich and the poor due to the stability that such inequalities provided.
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de Crespigny, Rafe (1973). "Universal Histories". In Donald D. Leslie; Colin Mackerras; Wang Gungwu (eds.).
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China: A History (Volume 1): From Neolithic Cultures through the Great Qing Empire, (10,000 BCE - 1799 CE)
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until 1070, when he refused further appointment and withdrew from court. In 1071, he took up residence in
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Politics and Conservatism in Northern Song China: The Career and Thought of Sima Guang (1019–1086)
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government more effective and argued that his views were in accord with history (in contrast with
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biological father, gave Zhao Yurang high ritual honors in 1066. In the same year, Sima sponsored
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The Cambridge History of China Volume 5 Part One: The Sung Dynasty and its Precursors, 907-1279
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Sima obtained early success as a scholar and officer. When he was barely twenty, he passed the
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In 1064, Sima, then just a policy critic, raised the issue between performing rituals for
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to the throne. Sima was recalled to court and appointed to lead the government under
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As well as his achievements as a statesman and historian, Sima Guang was also a
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postulation that humans were inherently evil and wrote a work called "Doubting
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and herself a staunch conservative. He and other recalled conservatives like
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Chapters 54–59 (157–189 BCE), translated and annotated by Rafe de Crespigny
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Abolishing the labor recruitment law and the fall of Cai Que and Zhang Dun
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would lead the reformist opposition against the conservative restoration.
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The Cambridge History of China Volume 5 Part Two: Sung China, 960–1279
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Brush pot with the pot-breaking episode from the story of Sima Guang,
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Sima had multiple objections to the New Policies. He believed that:
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describes him as "perhaps the greatest of all Chinese historians" (
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The economy functioned best with minimal governmental intervention.
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Following the protracted, expensive, and ultimately disappointing
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was subdivided, which eventually led to the establishment of the
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Emperor Shenzong died in 1085, shortly after Sima had submitted
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Abolishing the green sprouts law and peace with the Western Xia
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Sima and the other Yuanyou faction conservatives (except for
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Wars With the Xiongnu – A translation From Zizhi tongjian
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Sima believed that civilization was created when the
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At the age of 6, Sima heard a lecture concerning the
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formed the Yuanyou faction, named after the current
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While there, he wrote the 380: 218: 199: 2369:Along the River During the Qingming Festival 1887:Emperor Huizong and Late Northern Song China 1847:Twitchett, Denis; Smith, Paul Jakov (2009). 1739: 1116:, many of which were coined in the Song and 951:palace to introduce his work-in-progress to 886: 540:and favored a defensive stance towards the 1943: 1929: 50: 1760:Berkshire Dictionary of Chinese Biography 1742:Essays on the Sources for Chinese History 524: 499: 2955: 1866:Chaffee, John; Twitchett, Denis (2015). 1096:), and spent decades compiling his 1066 1039: 924: 658: 479: 370: 1950: 1776:, Hong Kong: Chinese University Press. 1758:Strange, Mark (2014), "Sima Guang", in 1185: 1183: 976:. Sima presented increasingly critical 922:and the beginning of the Song dynasty. 389:. The Sima family were originally from 3036: 2937:Collected Cases of Injustice Rectified 2862:Endless power transmitting chain drive 1827: 1332: 1317: 1024:) would be positively associated with 920:Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms period 343:(17 November 1019 – 11 October 1086), 321: 283: 1924: 430: 1803: 1189: 1180: 536:in late 1067. He opposed Shenzong's 1832:. Hackett Publishing Company, Inc. 1712:"The family precepts by Sima Guang" 801:The labor recruitment law replaced 13: 1889:. Harvard University Asia Center. 1106:) dictionary. It was based on the 870: 14: 3105: 1904: 1643:"Sima Guang and His History Book" 995: 806:labor recruitment law led to his 2121: 1102:("Classified Chapters", cf. the 881:, and the Australian sinologist 631:and cultivated friendships with 16:Song dynasty scholar (1019–1086) 3054:11th-century Chinese historians 1704: 1635: 1081: 1000:Sima rejected the roles of the 320: 306: 2363:Great Bodhisattva of Zhengding 1870:. Cambridge University Press. 1851:. 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Index

Chinese name
family name
Sima

Guangshan County
Guāng Prefecture
Song dynasty
Kaifeng
Courtesy name
Art name
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Traditional Chinese
司馬

Simplified Chinese
司马

Standard Mandarin
Hanyu Pinyin
Wade–Giles
IPA

Yue: Cantonese
Yale Romanization
IPA

courtesy name
Song dynasty
scholar-official
Zizhi Tongjian

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