Gan Wenkun 甘文焜

Names

Identity

Historicity

Historical

Identification

Named

Sex

Male

• Sex: male
  Strongly inferred · qingshigao:252:s0185

Roles

• Administrator
• Official

Family

• Kin of Gan Wenkong (甘文炯)
  Kinship Role: clansman-cousin
• Spouse of Concubine Sheng (盛氏)
  Kinship Role: concubine
• Parent of Gan Guojun (甘國均)
  Kinship Role: father
  Kinship Role: eldest-son
• Child of Gan Yingkui (甘應魁)
  Kinship Role: father
  Kinship Role: son
• Parent of Gan Guocheng (甘國城)
  Kinship Role: father
  Kinship Role: fourth-son
• Parent of Gan Guobi (甘國璧)
  Kinship Role: father
  Kinship Role: son
• Child of Mother of Gan Wenkun
  Kinship Role: mother
  Kinship Role: son
• Spouse of Mother of Gan Guobi
  Kinship Role: wife

• Kinship Role: sons · Description: had seven sons · Count: 7
  Explicit · qingshigao:252:s0042

Origins and identity

• Value: Han Bannerman · Banner: Plain Blue Banner
  Explicit · qingshigao:252:s0003
• Description: forebears moved from Fengcheng to Shenyang
  Explicit · qingshigao:252:s0003

Career and standing

• Label: governor / governor-general / 督撫 · Action: held
  Strongly inferred · qingshigao:252:s0184, qingshigao:252:s0185
• Title: Minister of War · Posthumous: true
  Explicit · qingshigao:252:s0040
• Title: clerk, Board of War
  Explicit · qingshigao:252:s0006
• Title: governor of Zhili · Western Year: 1667
  Explicit · qingshigao:252:s0011
• Title: governor-general of Yunnan and Guizhou · Western Year: 1668
  Explicit · qingshigao:252:s0016
• Title: prefect of Shuntian
  Explicit · qingshigao:252:s0007
• Title: Qixinlang, Board of Rites
  Explicit · qingshigao:252:s0006
• Title: vice-president, Board of Works
  Explicit · qingshigao:252:s0015
• Title: vice-president, Court of Judicial Review
  Explicit · qingshigao:252:s0007
• 忠果
  Explicit · qingshigao:252:s0040
• 勁節
  Explicit · qingshigao:252:s0041
• Status: martyrdom · Action: died-for-loyalty
  Strongly inferred · qingshigao:252:s0185, qingshigao:252:s0188

Places and affiliations

• Polity: Qing / 清 · Relation: served
  Strongly inferred · qingshigao:252:s0184, qingshigao:252:s0185
• Place: a territory separate from Sangui's / 與三桂分疆 · Relation: posted-to
  Explicit · qingshigao:252:s0185

Learning and skills

• Skills: horsemanship, archery, reading
  Explicit · qingshigao:252:s0005

Works and attributed material

• Description: vowed to emulate Zhang Xun and Nan Jiyun in defending to the death
  Explicit · qingshigao:252:s0030
• Kind: commentary · Role: subject · Statement: historian's judgment on governors facing the feudatories
  Explicit · qingshigao:252:s0184, qingshigao:252:s0185, qingshigao:252:s0188, qingshigao:252:s0189
• Speech: That boy was braver than I!
  Explicit · qingshigao:252:s0036
• Speech: To denounce the abuse and then hold the office would be to profit from it.
  Explicit · qingshigao:252:s0009

Events and relationships

• Kind: political · Role: governor · Action: governed-separately-from · Other Person Id: Wu Sangui (吳三桂) · Outcome: his troops long sided with Sangui
  Explicit · qingshigao:252:s0185
• Kind: biographical-event · Action: requested flood-tax remission and donated his salary to relief
  Explicit · qingshigao:252:s0012, qingshigao:252:s0014
• Kind: biographical-event · Action: sent troops that killed Afu, chief of the Zhenpo Miao
  Explicit · qingshigao:252:s0023
• Kind: biographical-event · Action: suppressed the Kaili Miao and executed Arong
  Explicit · qingshigao:252:s0018
• Relation: opposed-to · Person Id: Wu Sangui (吳三桂)
  Explicit · qingshigao:252:s0185

Assessments and attributes

• Assessment: fierce loyalty that inspired troops and struck fear into the rebels; death not in vain · Provenance: Mode: historian-judgment
  Explicit · qingshigao:252:s0188, qingshigao:252:s0189