Fangqing Wang

Fangqing Wang, better known in history as Wang Fangqing (died around June 702), was a Chinese official of the Tang dynasty and the Wu Zhou period under Wu Zetian. Historical sources describe him as a high-ranking statesman who served as a chancellor, and he is also associated with the text Wei Zheng Gong Jian Lu.

That work is traditionally attributed to him and centers on the counsel of the famed minister Wei Zheng to Emperor Taizong. Even when readers come to the book for its political wisdom, Wang Fangqing matters because he helped preserve and shape material that later generations valued as a guide to government, criticism, and moral leadership.

Little in the readily available sources suggests a large surviving personal literary profile apart from his official career and this attribution, so the safest way to think of him is as a scholar-official tied to an important historical work rather than as a standalone literary celebrity.