Hong Liangji, courtesy names Junzhi and Zhicun, was a Qing Chinese scholar, statesman, political theorist, and philosopher. He was most famous for his critical essay to the Qianlong Emperor, which res
The Jiaqing Emperor, also known by his temple name Emperor Renzong of Qing, personal name Yongyan, was the sixth emperor of the Qing dynasty and the fifth Qing emperor to rule over China proper. He wa
Hong Liangji
…was born in Changzhou and accomplished of the rank of jinshi, which he at the age of 44. He held minor government posts up until his criticism of the Qianlong Emperor in the early nineteenth century which focused on the emperor's failure to weed out corrupt officials like Heshen or reform the bureaucracy that had…
Portrait of the Jiaqing Emperor in court dress, by anonymous painter, late 18th or early 19th century