Listen "The First Chinese Constitutionalist: Huang Zongxi"
Episode Synopsis
After the death of his father and the fall of the Ming Dynasty, Huang Zongxi began to contemplate how things had collapsed. He began to think that governments were the problem. Those in power only served themselves. Huang proposed his solution to the chaos in his book Waiting for the Dawn, where he argued for a government that served the people and protected property. The government's power would be limited and kept in check to prevent tyranny from arising. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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