Dossier: Fan Zhongyan 范仲淹

Fan Zhongyan 范仲淹, image used on a Taiwan postage stamp, apparently

I guess the most interesting figure I learned about in the translation I have almost completed is Fan Zhongyan. He was a reformer, just like I would like to be, and interested in everything from increasing agricultural productivity to poetry. Actually these two things were much closer in those days, which is really the whole reason for the discussion...More later I hope, this again is one of those "stubs" I'd like to work in free time.