Mason Gaffney wrote:  
  
  
> What is historical is that one Wang-an Shih, a finance minister in    
> the Sung  
> Dynasty about the time of the Norman conquest of England, successfully  
> promoted taxation of land, a policy that succeeded in perpetuating the  
> dynasty for another 200 years; and that Turgot, the Physiocrat,    
> became known  
> as the French Confucius (probably Taoist would be more accurate);    
> and that  
> George replicated most of Turgot's ideas (probably independently,    
> with a  
> boost from Mill); and that Dr. Sun read George when in Hawaii, and  
> incorporated them as "right livelihood" in the San Min Chu I; and that  
> Taiwan idolized Dr. Sun, long after his death, and incorporated    
> many of his  
> ideas in the land reform and tax reform policies, creating one of the  
> "Tiger" economies.  
>  
  
WANG An-Shih (1021-1086) was a "prime minister" in Sung dynasty. In    
fact Wang's reform did not last long.  
  
I personally think the we in Taiwan only paid lip service to SUN Yat-   
sen's Three People's Principle (San-Min-Chu-I). It is purely    
political propaganda that Sun's ideas led to Taiwan's economic reform    
and economic development.  
  
Hsiang-Ke Chao