Chen Changqi (陳昌齊)

Overview

The translated histories identify Chen Changqi 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	Chen Changqi	陳昌齊	Chen Changqi
Courtesy name	Binchen	賓臣	Binchen
Personal name	Chen Changqi	陳昌齊	Chen Changqi

Identity

Historicity: Historical
Identification: Named
Sex: Male

Sex: male
Strongly inferred · qingshigao:362:s0116

Roles

Official
Scholar
Writer

Life and dates

Attested activity

Source Date: Text: 乾隆三十六年 · Western Year: AD 1771
Explicit event contextual date · qingshigao:362:s0117

Career and standing

Label: academy chair at Leiyang Yuexiu / 雷陽粵秀講席
Explicit · qingshigao:362:s0142
Label: Wen-Chu intendant / 溫處道 · Action: appointed · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 嘉慶九年 · Western Year: AD 1804
Explicit · qingshigao:362:s0132
Label: Hanlin reviser / 編修 · Action: appointed
Explicit · qingshigao:362:s0117

Places and affiliations

Place: Haikang, Guangdong / 廣東海康
Explicit · qingshigao:362:s0116

Learning and skills

Credential: Presented Scholar / 進士 · Action: earned · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 乾隆三十六年 · Western Year: AD 1771
Explicit · qingshigao:362:s0117

Works and attributed material

Work: local comprehensive gazetteer / 通志 · Relation: compiler
Explicit · qingshigao:362:s0143
Kind: memorial · Role: author
Explicit · qingshigao:362:s0122, qingshigao:362:s0123, qingshigao:362:s0124, qingshigao:362:s0125, qingshigao:362:s0126, qingshigao:362:s0127, qingshigao:362:s0128, qingshigao:362:s0129, qingshigao:362:s0130

Events and relationships

Kind: political · Role: advisor · Action: opposed sea ban · Other Person Id: Delinqtai (德楞泰)
Explicit · qingshigao:362:s0137, qingshigao:362:s0138
Relation: ally-of · Person Id: Li Changgeng (李長庚)
Explicit · qingshigao:362:s0135

References in the histories

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Draft History of Qing, Chapter 362Volume 362 Biographies 149: Fang Ji, Zhu Erhan, Yang Hu, Liao Yin, Chen Changqi, Zhu Ergenge, Cha Chonghua · 7 passages

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方積硃爾漢楊頀廖寅陳昌齊硃爾賡額查崇華方積，字有堂，安徽定遠人。 Fang Ji, Zhu Erhan, Yang Hu, Liao Yin, Chen Changqi, Zhu Ergenge, and Cha Chonghua. Fang Ji, whose style name was Youtang, came from Dingyuan in Anhui.

陳昌齊，字賓臣，廣東海康人。 Chen Changqi, whose style name was Binchen, came from Haikang in Guangdong.

大學士和珅欲羅致之，昌齊以非掌院，無晉謁禮，不往。 Grand Secretary Heshen tried to draw him into his circle, but Changqi, not being head of his academy, had no formal occasion to pay a courtesy call and refused to go.

昌齊生海邦，習洋盜情狀。 Born on the coast, Changqi knew the habits of maritime pirates firsthand.

時海寇蔡牽肆擾，昌齊修戰艦，簡軍伍，募人出海繪浙、閩海洋全圖，纖悉備具。 The pirate Cai Qian was then terrorizing the coast. Changqi refitted warships, culled the ranks, and hired men to sail out and chart the full coastline of Zhejiang and Fujian in meticulous detail.

昌齊曰：「環海居民耕而食者十之五，餘皆捕魚為業。 Changqi replied: "Of the people along the coast, half live by farming and the rest by fishing.

陳昌齊、硃爾賡額於治海寇並具謀略，而硃爾賡額功尤顯矣。 Chen Changqi and Zhu Ergenge both showed strategic talent against maritime pirates, though Zhu Ergenge's achievements stood out above all.