(Continued from page 315.) laws remained in force but still met with much opposition and never achieved the results he had 30 ardently desired, Added to the {n-ternal dimculties.the Sung armies met with serious reverses at the hands of the Hsi Hsia and Khitan Tartars in the north and the tribes of Annam in the south. When Shen Tsung died 1085, the empress-regent Kao lost 9 time in depriving Wang and his followers of office and putting in tis place Ssu-mahuang, his most uneompromising opponent. All the reform lows were immediately rescinded and a return to "normalcy" was welcomed with enthusiastic rejoicing.
Wang An-shih died the following year. His laws were again enforced when his party regained power a few years later, but they soon met with a final repudiation. The forces of traditionolisn became strongly entrenched and Wang's name and ideas were a subject of scorn for centuries, However, the leaders of the reform movement of 1898 made a sympathestudy of his principles and. proclaimed him as one of the greatest statesmen of "China's history. The evolution and the republic secured for him an honoured niche in the Chinese temple of fante and to-day every schoolboy learns something of his life and work.
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