明夷待訪錄

        Author xi, the word Taichong, No. Nanlei, scholars said LiZhou Mr. Wong Chuk Yuyao County, Zhejiang Province, Pu, born thirty-eight years of Ming Dynasty in 1610 AD, thirty-four years of Qing Emperor Kangxi died AD 1695. His father was the late Ming Wong Chun Su Donglin Party celebrities, framed by the eunuch Wei Zhongxian death. Xi adulthood Fu She added, adhere to the struggle against the eunuch, narrowly escaped killed. Qing south, he recruited meaning soldiers set up a "Shizhong camp", armed against the Qing Dynasty. After the fall of the Ming imperial refused conscripted, seclusion writings. His major works include "Ming Confucianism case," "Song Learning Plan" and "Ming Yi Dai Fang Lu and so on.

        "Ming Yi Dai Fang Lu," a book in 663 AD, Emperor Kangxi "Mingyi" Yes "Book of Changes" in a diagram, which Ci has Day: "Ming Yi Yu Fei hanging its wings, the gentleman in the line three days without food. Yau to man, the owner has made. "so-called" Mingyi "refers to the status of a wise man in trouble. "Pending visit" and wait for future generations to interview Mingjun adoption. The book has "Yuanjun", "former minister" and other papers 21. "Yuanjun" The King and those who criticize social reality "In my large private for the world's Archduke," an exercise "for the world of great harm." "Former minister" that the minister's responsibility is "to the world, non-King also; for the people, not for a name also." "Former Act" critical feudal state of the law, is "one of the law, rather than the world of law. " "School" advocates the expansion of the school's social function, so that there is a role in politics, said: "The emperor is not necessarily that of the non-necessarily non-emperor, the emperor has not since then as right and wrong, and the public is right and wrong at school" , "will make a world of governance, are out of school, and then set up the meaning of the beginning of the school ready." xi envisaged future school, similar to the modern center of public opinion and parliamentary institutions. Xi Although there is no fundamental denial of Jun and Chen's settings, but advocates liberal constitutional monarchy system, strengthen equality considerations, expanding social supervisory powers for the ruler, the idea of ​​a modern democracy. This idea is not affected by the impact of Western civilization, but from the Chinese traditional culture developed, and therefore more valuable. This book by the Qing rulers banned until the late Qing Dynasty was brought to light by Tan, Liang et al attention and praise.