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A New Treatise on Aids to Administration
Book by Hong Rengan
A New Treatise on Aids to Administration[2] or A New Treatise on Political Counsel[3] (simplified Chinese: 资政新篇; traditional Chinese: 資政新篇), also called New Treatise on Government,[4] was a pro-modernisation[5] proposal written by Hong Rengan to Hong Xiuquan when he arrived in Tianjing in the ninth year of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom (1859).[6]
A New Treatise on Aids to Administration was a blueprint of modernization for the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom.[7] In his book, Hong proposed a program for China's economic modernization, including the construction of railroads and ships, the establishment of banks, patents, currency, public welfare institutions and hospitals, and so forth.[8]
Regarding the sources that contributed to Hong's book, many scholars have pointed out the influence of missionaries' Chinese newspapers and periodicals.[9]