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