{"collection":"cfu","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/cfu/fol/fol43.htm","path":"cfu/fol/fol43.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/cfu/fol/fol43.htm","text":"A Feast of Lanterns, by L. Cranmer-Byng, [1916]\nSocial reformer, politician, and literary man, Wang An-Shih has often been called the Father of Chinese Socialism. For many years he enjoyed supreme power as Prime Minister of the Emperor Shen Tsung, during whose reign he introduced a system of state doles to agriculturalists and organised a universal militia for safeguarding the country. He lived long enough to see the whole of his legislation repealed by his successor and rival Ss\u00fc-ma Kuang, the historian.","title":"A Feast of Lanterns: Wang An-Shih: At the Parting Ways","type":"page"}