An Weijun (安維峻) | 24 Histories

Overview

The translated histories identify An Weijun as an official, scholar, and writer. This record brings together 7 passages from 1 chapter across 1 history, with names, dates, relationships, offices, and events preserved as source-backed claims.

Names

Type	English	Chinese	Pinyin
Personal	An Weijun	安維峻	An Weijun
Surname	An	安
Given	Weijun	維峻
Courtesy	Xiaofeng	曉峰	Xiaofeng

Identity

Historicity: Historical
Identification: Named
Sex: Male

Sex: male
Explicit · qingshigao:445:s0129

Roles

Official
Scholar
Writer

Life and dates

Death

Manner: died in depression after more than fifteen years / 越十有五年，卒…抑鬱以終
Explicit · qingshigao:445:s0157, qingshigao:445:s0160

Attested activity

Source Date: Text: 三十四年 · Western Year: AD 1908
Explicit · qingshigao:445:s0155
Source Date: Text: 二十五年 · Western Year: AD 1899
Explicit · qingshigao:445:s0154
Source Date: Text: 光緒六年 · Western Year: AD 1880
Explicit · qingshigao:445:s0131
Source Date: Text: 十九年 · Western Year: AD 1893
Explicit · qingshigao:445:s0132
Source Date: Text: 宣統三年 · Western Year: AD 1911
Explicit · qingshigao:445:s0156
Source Date: Text: 民國十五年左右 · Western Year: AD 1926
Strongly inferred · qingshigao:445:s0157, qingshigao:445:s0156

Career and standing

Label: censor / 御史 · Action: appointed
Explicit event contextual date · qingshigao:445:s0132
Label: chief instructor of the Capital University / 京師大學總教習 · Action: appointed
Explicit · qingshigao:445:s0155
Label: reader in the Grand Secretariat / 內閣侍讀 · Action: appointed
Explicit event contextual date · qingshigao:445:s0155
Status: exile · Action: entered
Explicit · qingshigao:445:s0150, qingshigao:445:s0153
Status: exile · Action: released
Explicit event contextual date · qingshigao:445:s0154
Label: stripped of office and sent to military garrison / 革職發軍台 · Action: suffered
Explicit · qingshigao:445:s0150

Places and affiliations

Place: Qin'an, Gansu / 甘肅秦安
Explicit · qingshigao:445:s0129
Place: Baiya / 柏崖 · Relation: resided-at
Explicit · qingshigao:445:s0159

Learning and skills

Credential: Presented Scholar / 進士 · Action: earned
Explicit event contextual date · qingshigao:445:s0131

Works and attributed material

Work: collected poems and prose / 詩文集 · Relation: author
Explicit · qingshigao:445:s0161
Work: Expositions on the Four Books / 四書講義 · Relation: author
Explicit · qingshigao:445:s0161
Kind: memorial · Role: author · Summary: impeach Li Hongzhang; question dowager and Li Lianying
Explicit · qingshigao:445:s0135, qingshigao:445:s0136, qingshigao:445:s0137, qingshigao:445:s0138, qingshigao:445:s0139, qingshigao:445:s0140, qingshigao:445:s0141, qingshigao:445:s0142, qingshigao:445:s0143, qingshigao:445:s0144, qingshigao:445:s0145, qingshigao:445:s0146, qingshigao:445:s0147

Assessments and attributes

Assessment: punished for offending empress dowager · Provenance: Mode: historian-judgment
Explicit · qingshigao:445:s0219
Assessment: upright reputation shook China and abroad · Provenance: Mode: historian-judgment
Explicit · qingshigao:445:s0151

References in the histories

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Draft History of Qing, Chapter 445Volume 445 Biographies 232: Wu Kedu, Zhu Yixin, Tu Keshou, An Weijun, Wen Ti, Jiang Chunlin · 7 passages

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吳可讀潘敦儼朱一新屠仁守吳兆泰何金壽安維峻 Wu Kedu, Pan Dunyi, Zhu Yixin, Tu Renshou, Wu Zhaotai, He Jinshou, and An Weijun

安維峻，字曉峰，甘肅秦安人。 An Weijun, styled Xiaofeng, was from Qin'an in Gansu.

於是維峻上言：「李鴻章平日挾外洋以自重，固不欲戰，有言戰者，動遭呵斥。 Thereupon Weijun memorialized: "Li Hongzhang on ordinary days uses foreign powers to magnify himself and plainly does not wish war; whoever speaks of war is at once rebuked.

乃安維峻封奏，託諸傳聞，竟有'皇太后遇事牽制'之語，妄言無忌，恐開離間之端。」 Yet An Weijun's sealed memorial, resting on rumor, actually has the words 'the empress dowager restrains affairs at every turn'; reckless speech without restraint may open a breach of estrangement."

維峻以言獲罪，直聲震中外，人多榮之。 Weijun was punished for his words; his upright reputation shook China and abroad, and many honored him.

維峻崇樸實，尚踐履，不喜為博辨，尤嚴義利之分。 Weijun honored plainness and practicality, valued conduct over disputation, and especially kept strict the boundary between righteousness and profit.

一新、仁守、維峻先後直言，皆以語侵太后獲罪。 Yixin, Renshou, and Weijun in succession spoke frankly; all were punished for words that offended the empress dowager.