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Wei Yuan Wei Yuan (1794-1857), the Qing Dynasty famous thinker and historian. Word silent and deep, Shaoyang, Hunan, Chin dynasty. The early years as a cabinet book, Salt, maritime transport has supervision of any of Two Rivers Governor shogunate. Directly participated in the Anti-British war in the Two Rivers Governor Yu Qian shogunate in 1842. In August 1841, Lin dismissed banish Ili passing Jingkou and four Chau Chi Manuscript Series in Western History and information in Guangzhou Fu Weiyuan, exhorting him to further collect information of foreign countries to complete the book. January 3, 1843, Wei Yuan ed published in 50 volumes of the "Haiguo. 1847 Block printed expanded to 60 volumes. 1852 addition of 100 volumes, published in Yangzhou. Haiguo "End of Qing Dynasty system introduces the history and geography of the world famous authors declare book to barbarian attack razed purposes, for Yi Yi paragraph, and learning technology in order to barbarians as "of Chinese society at the time had a significant impact. 1854, Japan turned engraved Haiguo "Block printed publication" target = "_blank"> sea country Illustrated Record. The Meiji Restoration politicians, thinkers as Xixianglongsheng people are affect by this book. (1 $ dj��.c��m)
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