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Huang Zongxi was a [[Ming loyalist]] scholar-official who contributed to the armed resistance against the [[Manchu]] invasion, and who later wrote significant critiques of government.
Huang's father was executed in [[1626]] on the orders of [[eunuch]] [[Wei Zhongxian]], contributing to his later critiques of the power of the eunuchs.
Following the fall of [[Beijing]] in [[1644]], Huang fought alongside Ming loyalists in southeast China, retiring to his home province of [[Zhejiang province|Zhejiang]] in [[1649]], where he then devoted himself to the compilation of political critiques, and biographies of major Ming figures. In his writings, he invoked the ideal government of the [[sage kings]] and advocated for the moral force of virtuous administrators. He also argued for a more decentralized governmental structure, in which less power was lodged in the emperor's person, and more in virtuous local and regional administrators.
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==References==
*Jonathan Spence, ''The Search for Modern China'', Second Edition, W.W. Norton & Co. (1999), 61-62.
[[Category:Scholars and Philosophers]]
[[Category:Edo Period]]