entity Updated 2026-07-25 Tags: Qing-History, Scholar, Political-Thought

吕留良 / Lu Liuliang

吕留良 / Lu Liuliang is the late Ming-early Qing scholar whose writings become the ideological center of the [[ZengJing|曾静]] case in 11.雍正王朝之大义觉迷:史景迁笔下的千古奇案. The episode says Zeng Jing and [[ZhangXi|张熙]] absorbed anti-Qing and Hua-Yi arguments through Lu’s books, even though Lu himself was long dead when the case broke open.

The source treats Lu as both genuine influence and convenient target. [[LiWeiQingOfficial|李卫]]’s search of the Lu household showed only a thin direct connection to Zeng Jing, yet [[YongzhengEmperor|雍正]] moved the case’s guilt toward Lu’s writings, descendants, students, and Zhejiang literati. Lu therefore becomes a key example of 清代文字狱 / Qing Literary Inquisition: writing, diaries, print circulation, and scholarly memory could be punished as political contagion.

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