New World Encyclopedia's article on Dong Zhongshu (Tung Chung-shu), an openly licensed general encyclopedia. Reliable for Dong's rise under Emperor Wu of Han (reigned roughly 140 to 87 BCE) and his advocacy, traditionally dated to 136 BCE, for making Confucianism the Han empire's unifying ideology, dismissing non-Confucian scholars from government and founding an imperial college; the article's own wording, "traditionally associated with," and its account of Dong's uneasy relationship with the emperor (he was imprisoned and nearly executed for seditious writings) is this atlas's basis for naming the 136 BCE date as a traditional single-event account of what modern scholarship treats as a more gradual institutional process.
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Citation
AuthorNew World Encyclopedia contributors
PublisherNew World Encyclopedia
Publication Year2026
URLhttps://www.newworldencyclopedia.org/entry/Tung_Chung-shu
Source Typeencyclopedia
Assessment
Reliability Tier3
Openly licensed general encyclopedia, tier 3. Used for the traditionally cited 136 BCE date of Confucianism's Han state establishment, with the source's own "traditionally associated with" hedge carried into this atlas's record rather than flattened into a settled fact. NotesUsed for Confucianism's Han-dynasty establishment as state orthodoxy.
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This source names Dong Zhongshu directly: "New World Encyclopedia's article on Dong Zhongshu (Tung Chung-shu), an openly licensed general encyclopedia."
This source names Emperor Wu of Han directly: "Reliable for Dong's rise under Emperor Wu of Han (reigned roughly 140 to 87 BCE) and his advocacy, traditionally dated to 136 BCE, for making Confucianism the Han empire's unifying ideology..."
Claims Backed By This Source (34 claims)
This source backs 34 claims across the atlas. As facts: 19 well-attested, 1 scholarly debate. As cited relationships: 6 holds, 1 connected. Plus 7 entities citing it as a general reference with no single fact or relationship attached.
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- Elements, 10 claims: 5 well-attested, 5 general references.
- Sources, 10 claims: 8 well-attested, 2 holds.
- Spread Events, 8 claims: 2 well-attested, 1 scholarly debate, 4 holds, 1 general references.
- Articles, 6 claims: 4 well-attested, 1 connected, 1 general references.
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