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Yan Ruoqu

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Also known as: Yan Ruoju, Yen Jo-chü
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Wade-Giles romanization:
Yen Jo-chü
Born:
Nov. 11, 1636, Huai’an, Jiangsu province, China
Died:
July 9, 1704, Beijing (aged 67)
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Yan Ruoqu (born Nov. 11, 1636, Huai’an, Jiangsu province, China—died July 9, 1704, Beijing) was a great Chinese scholar from the early period of the Qing dynasty (1644–1911/12) who proved that 25 chapters of the Shujing, or Shangshu, one of the Five Classics of Confucianism, upon which the government modeled itself for more than a thousand years, were forged. Yan early became interested in determining the authenticity of the Shujing. The work dated from the early Zhou period (1122–771 bc), but after the years of turmoil following the end of the Han dynasty (206 bc–ad 220), only 29 chapters of ...(100 of 207 words)

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