Yan Song (Chinese: 嚴嵩; pinyin: Yán Sōng; 1480–1567), courtesy name: Weizhong (惟中), pseudonym: Jiexi (介溪), was a corrupt Ming Chinese politician, who dominated the Ming government for two decades as Grand Secretary during the reign of the Jiajing Emperor.
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“This is a catastrophic universe, always; and subject to sudden reversals, upheavals, changes, cataclysms, with joy never anything but the song of substance under pressure forced into new forms and shapes.”
—Doris Lessing (b. 1919)