The Miserable Failure of China's First Crack at Communism

A History of Mankind (220)

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Like his land and currency schemes, other measures that stayed in place for most of Wang Mang's reign effectively meant the implementation of proposals from earlier Confucian proposal packages that more cautious emperors had rejected as too controversial or had only briefly tested.