Fang Xiaoru (方孝孺)

Overview

The translated histories identify Fang Xiaoru as an official and scholar. This record brings together 3 passages from 2 chapters across 2 histories, with names, dates, relationships, offices, and events preserved as source-backed claims.

Names

Type	English	Chinese	Pinyin
Personal	Fang Xiaoru	方孝孺	Fang Xiaoru
Personal name	Fang Xiaoru	方孝孺	Fang Xiaoru

Identity

Historicity: Historical
Identification: Named
Sex: Male

Sex: male
Strongly inferred · mingshi:005:s0174, mingshi:005:s0181, qingshigao:423:s0015

Roles

Official
Scholar

Life and dates

Death

Manner: execution · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 洪武三十五年 · Western Year: AD 1402
Explicit · mingshi:005:s0181

Attested activity

Source Date: Text: 同治六年前後 · Western Year: AD 1867
Explicit event contextual date · qingshigao:423:s0043
Source Date: Text: 洪武三十五年 · Western Year: AD 1402
Explicit event contextual date · mingshi:005:s0174, mingshi:005:s0181

Career and standing

Status: clan-extermination · Action: suffered · Note: clan exterminated with him
Explicit · mingshi:005:s0181

References in the histories

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History of Ming, Chapter 5Volume 5 Annals 5: Chengzu 1 · 2 passages

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大索齊泰、黄子澄、方孝孺等五十余人，榜其姓名曰奸臣。 He hunted Qi Tai, Huang Zicheng, Fang Xiaoru, and more than fifty besides, and posted their names under the heading “treacherous ministers.”

丁丑，殺齊泰、黄子澄、方孝孺，並夷其族。 On dingchou he put Qi Tai, Huang Zicheng, and Fang Xiaoru to death and extirpated their kin to the last degree.

Draft History of Qing, Chapter 423Volume 423 Biographies 210: Zong Jichen, Yin Gengyun, Wang Zheng, Mu Jixianga, You Baichuan, Shen Huai · 1 passage

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官山東，請修方孝孺祠，並刻正學集：其振勵風教多類此。 and in Shandong he had Fang Xiaoru's shrine restored and the Correct Learning collection carved for printing—typical of his efforts to uphold moral culture.