Download or read book His Stubbornship: Prime Minister Wang Anshi (1021--1086), Reformer and Poet written by Jonathan O. Pease and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2021-10-05 with total page 677 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: China’s most controversial prime minister, path-breaking reformer, and an iconic Song-dynasty poet, Wang Anshi (1021—1086) is fully chronicled in English for the first time in almost a century, with a new emphasis on his luminous late verse.