Chen Hongmou (陳宏謀)

Overview

The translated histories identify Chen Hongmou as an administrator, official, scholar, and statesman. This record brings together 6 passages from 4 chapters across 1 history, with names, dates, relationships, offices, and events preserved as source-backed claims.

Names

Type	English	Chinese	Pinyin
Personal	Chen Hongmou	陳宏謀	Chen Hongmou
Personal	Chen Hongmou	陳宏謀
Personal name	Chen Hongmou	陳宏謀	Chen Hongmou
Personal	Chen Hongmou	陳宏謀	Chén Hóngmóu
Given	Hongmou	宏謀	Hongmou

Identity

Historicity: Historical
Identification: Named
Sex: Male

Sex: male
Strongly inferred · qingshigao:337:s0044, qingshigao:378:s0050
Sex: male
Explicit · qingshigao:340:s0003, qingshigao:379:s0023

Roles

Administrator
Official
Scholar
Statesman
Writer

Life and dates

Attested activity

Source Date: Text: 乾隆二十一年 · Western Year: AD 1756
Explicit event contextual date · qingshigao:337:s0044
Source Date: Text: 乾隆二十六年 · Western Year: AD 1761
Explicit event contextual date · qingshigao:340:s0003, qingshigao:340:s0006
Source Date: Text: 嘉慶二十年 · Western Year: AD 1815
Explicit event contextual date · qingshigao:379:s0023, qingshigao:379:s0019
Source Date: Text: 道光十五年 · Western Year: AD 1835
Strongly inferred · qingshigao:378:s0179, qingshigao:378:s0178

Career and standing

Office: Governor replacing Lu Chao / 代焯 · Action: appointed as replacement · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 乾隆二十一年 · Western Year: AD 1756
Explicit · qingshigao:337:s0044
Label: governor of Jiangsu / 江蘇巡撫 · Action: held
Explicit · qingshigao:340:s0003

Places and affiliations

Polity: Qing / 清 · Relation: served
Explicit · qingshigao:337:s0044, qingshigao:378:s0002

Works and attributed material

Work: Administrative Regulations for Custom Reform / 行政訓俗遺規 · Relation: author
Explicit · qingshigao:379:s0023

Events and relationships

Kind: military-logistics · Role: administrator · Action: was urgently instructed about grain for the Jinchuan campaign · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 乾隆二十一年 · Western Year: AD 1756
Explicit · qingshigao:337:s0045
Relation: teacher-influence-on · Person Id: Wang Jie (王杰)
Explicit · qingshigao:340:s0005

References in the histories

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Draft History of Qing, Chapter 337Volume 337 Biographies 124: Lu Chao, Tu Er Bing A, A Si Ha, Gong Zhaolin, Yang Jingsu, Min Eyuan · 2 passages

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二十一年，調署湖北，以陳宏謀代焯。 In 1756 he was transferred to act as governor of Hubei, with Chen Hongmou slated to replace him.

宏謀未至，上命發歸化城米運金川饋軍，急驛諭宏謀。 Before Hongmou arrived, the throne ordered grain from Guihua City shipped to supply the Jinchuan campaign and sent an urgent courier to inform Hongmou.

Draft History of Qing, Chapter 340Volume 340 Biographies 127: Wang Jie, Dong Gao, Zhu Gui · 2 passages

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歷佐兩江總督尹繼善、江蘇巡撫陳宏謀幕，皆重之。 He later served on the secretariats of Yin Jishan, governor-general of the Two Jiangs, and Chen Hongmou, governor of Jiangsu, and both men valued him highly.

及見宏謀，學益進，自謂生平行己居官得力於此。 After he came to know Hongmou his studies advanced further still, and he would say that everything he achieved in private conduct and in public office he owed to this education.

Draft History of Qing, Chapter 378Volume 378 Biographies 165: Huang Juezi, Jin Yinglin, Chen Qingyong, Su Tingkui, Zhu Qi · 1 passage

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慕同里陳宏謀之為人，以氣節自勵。 He admired the character of his fellow townsman Chen Hongmou and strove to live by moral integrity.

Draft History of Qing, Chapter 379Volume 379 Biographies 166: Zhao Shenzhen, Lu Kun, Ceng Sheng, Tao Shu · 1 passage

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粵俗奢靡，刊發陳宏謀行政訓俗遺規，躬行節儉以示勸。 Cantonese customs were notoriously extravagant; he published Chen Hongmou's surviving regulations on administration and moral instruction, and himself practiced frugality to set an example.