Song dynasty chancellor whose sweeping reforms, the New Policies (新法), divided the court for decades, and one of the 唐宋八大家. Children learn his poem 泊船瓜洲.
The reforms Wang Anshi carried out are known as the Xining Reforms.
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His 新法 included the 青苗法, which lent farmers grain from state granaries in the lean months before harvest, repaid with interest. When Emperor Shenzong died in 1085, his rival 司马光 became chancellor and repealed almost all of it.
