Yomei-gaku showed signs of reviving when Wei Yuan, who wrote the "Illustrated Treatise on the Maritime Kingdoms"(Ch; 'Haiguo Tuzhi'; Jp: 'Kaizu Zushi') began reappraising Yomeigaku and when Zhu Ciqi, the master of Kang Youwei, advocated 'Zhu and Wang as one' again.
まず『海国図志』を著した魏源によって陽明学は見直され初め、康有為の師である朱次キは「朱王一致」を再び唱えるなど陽明学は復活の兆しを見せるようになる。