Song Dynasty Reinstates and Then Re-Abolishes Reforms
1094
The factional pendulum swung again at the Song court: the young Emperor Zhezong, reaching adulthood and chafing under conservative regents, restored Wang Anshi's New Policies and purged the officials who had dismantled them. Sima Guang was posthumously stripped of honors; reformist officials returned to power. The whiplash of policy reversals - reform, reaction, re-reform - was destabilizing Song governance at the precise moment it needed coherence most.
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High Middle Ages (1000–1300), one of 1,306 events from that era on Saeculum.