Wei Liaoweng

In this Chinese name, the family name is Wei.

Wei Liaoweng (Chinese: 魏了翁; 1178–1237) was a Chinese philosopher and politician of the Southern Song dynasty. He and his colleague Zhen Dexiu were instrumental in establishing Neo-Confucianism as the dominant political philosophy of the court at the time.

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