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Wang Chong (A.D. 27–97?), with the courtesy name of Zhong Ren, was a native of Shangyu, Kuaiji (now Shangyu District, Shaoxing City in Zhejiang Province). He was born into a humble non-official family and clan which inherited the chivalrous tradition. He was once a student in the imperial academy, and later served as a junior prefectural official. In his later years, he was removed from office and lived an austere life at home. He was engaged in writing and compiling scholarly works all his life. Among them, his greatest monograph Lun Heng (Discourses Weighted in the Balance) made a fierce criticism on the theory of “divination and destiny” strongly advocated by rulers of the Han Dynasty. In this monograph, My Autobiography (Zi Ji) and other articles probed into many issues of literary theory and strongly criticized the orthodox literary thoughts of the Han Dynasty.

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Wang Chong’s Criticism on the Orthodox Style of Study in the Han Dynasty

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Wang Chong (A.D. 27–97?), with the courtesy name of Zhong Ren, was a native of Shangyu, Kuaiji (now Shangyu District, Shaoxing City in Zhejiang Province). He was born into a humble non-official family and clan which inherited the chivalrous tradition. He was once a student in the imperial academy, and later served as a junior prefectural official. In his later years, he was removed from office and lived an austere life at home. He was engaged in writing and compiling scholarly works all his life. Among them, his greatest monograph Lun Heng (Discourses Weighted in the Balance) made a fierce criticism on the theory of “divination and destiny” strongly advocated by rulers of the Han Dynasty. In this monograph, My Autobiography (Zi Ji) and other articles probed into many issues of literary theory and strongly criticized the orthodox literary thoughts of the Han Dynasty.