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Waiting for the Dawn: A Plan for the Prince (translation by William Theodore de Bary for "Ming Yi Dai Fang Lu"; 明夷待访录) is a political work written by Huang Zongxi (1610-1695), known as "The Father of Chinese Enlightenment". A work of liberal enlightenment, the radical text openly criticises the absolute monarchy and other forms of despotic governments, presents early theories of civil rights, and calls for a democratic political system. Huang first began writing the book in the eighteenth year of the reign of Shunzhi in the Qing Dynasty (1661), and completed it in the first year of Kangxi (1662), about a century before The Social Contract by Jean-Jacques Rousseau. It would become highly influential during the late Qing』s Wuxu Reform and other attempts at establishing a constitutional monarchy in China.
The English edition of Ming Yi Dai Fang Lu, translated by Wm. Theodore de Bary as Waiting for the Dawn, was published by Columbia University Press in 1993.
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《明夷待访录》,为体现明末清初黄宗羲(1610年-1695年)民主、民本思想的重要著作。著于清顺治十八年(1661年),成书于康熙元年(1662年)。
「明夷」出自《周易》卦名:「箕子之明夷」,据《周易正义》云:「日入地中,明夷之象施之于人事,暗主在上,明臣在下,不敢显其明志,亦明夷之义也」。所谓「明夷」指在黎明前的昏暗,「待访」,指等待明君来访,全名的意思是黎明前等待明君来访的备忘录。
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