He Changling
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He Changling (traditional Chinese: 賀長齡; simplified Chinese: 贺长龄; pinyin: Hè Chánglíng; Wade-Giles: He Ch'angling), (March 18, 1785—July 6, 1848), courtesy name Ougen (耦耕), was a Chinese scholar and official during the Qing Dynasty from Changsha, Hunan. In 1808, he obtained the highest degree in the Imperial examinations and the following year he entered the prestigious Hanlin Academy in Beijing.
Drawing on his extensive experience in the Qing government, he became a prominent spokesman of the statecraft school, which was concerned with the practucal application of Confucian scholarship, and he edited an influential anthology on statecraft, called Huangchao Jingshi Wenbian (皇朝經世文編).
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- Hummel, Arthur William, ed. Eminent Chinese of the Ch'ing Period (1644-1912). 2 vols. Washington: United States Government Printing Office, 1943.
