Chen Tingjing (陳廷敬)

Overview

The translated histories identify Chen Tingjing as a historian, official, and statesman. This record brings together 3 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 Tingjing	陳廷敬	Chen Tingjing

Identity

Historicity: Historical
Identification: Named
Sex: Uncertain

Roles

Historian
Official
Statesman

Life and dates

Attested activity

Source Date: Text: 五十三年 · Western Year: AD 1714
Explicit · qingshigao:271:s0159

Career and standing

Label: Minister / 尚書 · Action: chief-compiler · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 五十三年 · Western Year: AD 1714
Explicit · qingshigao:271:s0159

References in the histories

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Draft History of Qing, Chapter 271Volume 271 Biographies 58: Xu Qianxue, Wang Hongxu, Gao Shiqi · 3 passages

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惟大學士張玉書爲監修，尚書陳廷敬爲總裁，各專一類：玉書任志，廷敬任本紀，臣任列傳。 Only Grand Secretary Zhang Yushu served as supervising compiler and Minister Chen Tingjing as chief compiler—Zhang handled the treatises, Chen the annals, and I the biographies.

如是數年，匯分成帙，而大學士熊賜履續奉監修之命，檄取傳稿以進，玉書、廷敬暨臣皆未參閲。 After several years the biographies were assembled, but Grand Secretary Xiong Cilü, who had succeeded to the supervising post, requisitioned the draft biographies for submission without Zhang Yushu, Chen Tingjing, or myself having reviewed them.

不獨臣爲然，前入直諸臣，如熊賜履、葉方靄、張玉書、孫在豐、王士禎、硃彝尊等，近今同事諸臣，如陳廷敬、徐乾學、王鴻緒、張英、勵杜訥等，莫不皆然。 Nor was I alone: earlier men who served in the direct studios—Xiong Cilü, Ye Fang'ai, Zhang Yushu, Sun Zaifeng, Wang Shizhen, Zhu Yizun—and recent colleagues such as Chen Tingjing, Xu Qianxue, Wang Hongxu, Zhang Ying, and Li Dun'e all followed the same rule.