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Wang Mang

Chinese official who usurped the Han throne and founded the short-lived Xin dynasty — attempting to implement radical Confucian reforms (land redistribution, abolition of slavery, currency reform) that produced economic chaos and contributed to peasant uprisings that restored the Han dynasty.

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