Yan Ruoqu

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...