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Wang Zhong (1745–1794) was a Qing-dynasty Chinese scholar from Jiangdu District in Yangzhou. He has been characterised as "the most arrogant scholar of his age".

Works

• Guangling dui (廣陵對, Answers about Guangling), 1787
• Shu xue (Records of Learning), 1792
• Guangling tongdian (Comprehensive Standard Work of Guanling), published posthumously, 1823

References

1. Marc Winter, 'The Universe in a Nutshell: Wang Zhong's Essay 'Dialogue about Guanling' (Guanling dui, 1787)', Yangshou: a Place in Literature: The Local in Chinese Cultural History, ed. Roland Altenburger and Margaret B. Wan, University of Hawaii Press, 2015, pp.87ff
2. Weijing Lu, Uxorilocal Marriage among Qing Literati, Late Imperial China, Vol. 19, No. 2 (December 1998), pp.64-110
3. Taylor, Rodney Leon; Choy, Howard Yuen Fung (2005). The Illustrated Encyclopedia of Confucianism: N-Z. The Rosen Publishing Group. ISBN 978-0-8239-4081-3.

• Hummel, Arthur W. Sr., ed. (1943). "Wang Chung" . Eminent Chinese of the Ch'ing Period. United States Government Printing Office.

• 1745 births
• 1794 deaths
• 18th-century Chinese scholars