黄宗羲

黃宗羲
HuángZōngxī
proper noun

Meanings

  1. 1 Huang Zongxi (1610-1695), Ming-Qing transition scholar, philosopher and political thinker

Examples

HSK 6
Huángzōngxī shì Míng mò Qīng chū zhùmíng de sīxiǎngjiā.
Huang Zongxi was a famous thinker of the late Ming and early Qing period.
HSK 7-9
《 Míng yí dài fǎng lù 》 shì Huángzōngxī de dàibiǎozuò.
Waiting for the Dawn is Huang Zongxi's masterwork.

Tips

history
Together with Gu Yanwu (顾炎武) and Wang Fuzhi (王夫之), Huang Zongxi is one of the "Three Great Confucians of the Late Ming" (明末三大儒), Ming loyalists who turned to scholarship after refusing to serve the Qing.

In Pop Culture

访 Míng yí dài fǎng lù
Waiting for the Dawn: A Plan for the Prince
Huang Zongxi's 1663 political treatise critiquing imperial autocracy and proposing limits on monarchy - sometimes called 'China's earliest democratic thinking', and influential on late-Qing reformers.

Stroke Order

huáng
zōng