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*''Born: [[1019]]''
*''Died: [[1086]]''
Sima Guang was a Chinese scholar-official and historian. He is credited with authoring ''The Comprehensive Mirror for Aid in Government'', a history of China up to [[959]], which is regarded as the first history of China to incorporate differing accounts or interpretations of events rather than presenting a single official narrative.
As a political official and advisor, Sima Guang advocated incremental reforms, and policies based on those of the preceding [[Tang Dynasty]] and of the [[Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms Period]]. He found himself the head of a powerful faction at Court, opposed by a classicist faction which advocated more radical reforms, and a fuller return to the ways of the classical Sage Kings of old.
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==References==
*Valerie Hansen, ''The Open Empire'', New York: W.W. Norton & Co. (2000), 269.
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*''Died: [[1086]]''
Sima Guang was a Chinese scholar-official and historian. He is credited with authoring ''The Comprehensive Mirror for Aid in Government'', a history of China up to [[959]], which is regarded as the first history of China to incorporate differing accounts or interpretations of events rather than presenting a single official narrative.
As a political official and advisor, Sima Guang advocated incremental reforms, and policies based on those of the preceding [[Tang Dynasty]] and of the [[Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms Period]]. He found himself the head of a powerful faction at Court, opposed by a classicist faction which advocated more radical reforms, and a fuller return to the ways of the classical Sage Kings of old.
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==References==
*Valerie Hansen, ''The Open Empire'', New York: W.W. Norton & Co. (2000), 269.
[[Category:Scholars and Philosophers]]
[[Category:Historians]]
[[Category:Heian Period]]