Gao Shiqi 高士奇

Names

Identity

Historicity

Historical

Identification

Named

Sex

Male

• Sex: male
  Explicit · qingshigao:269:s0154
• Sex: male
  Strongly inferred · qingshigao:271:s0241, qingshigao:271:s0250

Roles

• Courtier
• Editor
• Official
• Scholar

Family

• Child of Mother of Gao Shiqi (高士奇母)
  Kinship Term: mother / 母 · Parentage: biological · Subject Role: son · Object Role: mother
• Parent of Gao Yu (高輿)
  Kinship Term: son / 子 · Parentage: biological · Subject Role: father · Object Role: son

Career and standing

• Label: Junior Tutor of the Household of the Heir Apparent / 詹事府詹事 · Action: appointed · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 三十六年 · Western Year: AD 1697
  Explicit · qingshigao:271:s0241
• Label: Vice Minister of Rites / 禮部侍郎 · Action: promoted · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 三十六年 · Western Year: AD 1697
  Explicit · qingshigao:271:s0242
• Label: duty in the Southern Study / 直南書房 · Action: served · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 三十三年 · Western Year: AD 1694
  Explicit event contextual date · qingshigao:271:s0239, qingshigao:271:s0240
• Label: full state funeral subsidy / 全葬 · Action: granted · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 四十二年 · Western Year: AD 1703
  Explicit · qingshigao:271:s0250
• Label: posthumous name Wenke / 諡文恪 · Action: granted · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 四十二年 · Western Year: AD 1703
  Explicit · qingshigao:271:s0251
• Label: lavish imperial favors and gifts / 賜予優渥 · Action: received · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 四十二年 · Western Year: AD 1703
  Explicit · qingshigao:271:s0244
• Status: received-imperial-favor-to-the-end · Label: ended with favor and ritual / 以恩禮終
  Explicit · qingshigao:271:s0257
• Label: impeachment / 彈劾 · Action: suffered · Negated: false
  Explicit · qingshigao:271:s0256

Places and affiliations

• Place: Hangzhou / 杭州 · Relation: traveled-to · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 四十二年 · Western Year: AD 1703
  Explicit · qingshigao:271:s0243
• Place: Huai'an / 淮安 · Relation: traveled-to · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 四十二年 · Western Year: AD 1703
  Explicit · qingshigao:271:s0243
• Place: home / 家 · Relation: died-at · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 是年 · Western Year: AD 1703
  Explicit · qingshigao:271:s0249
• Organization: Southern Study / 南書房 · Relation: member-of
  Explicit · qingshigao:271:s0240, qingshigao:271:s0254, qingshigao:271:s0255

Learning and skills

• Skill: identifying the period of ancient poetry and prose at a glance / 一覽即知古人詩文時代 · Level: renowned · Provenance: Mode: quotation · Speaker Person Id: Kangxi Emperor (聖祖)
  Explicit · qingshigao:271:s0247

Works and attributed material

• Work: compilation / editorial work / 修書 · Relation: editor
  Explicit · qingshigao:271:s0239

Events and relationships

• Kind: travel · Role: subject · Action: asked-leave-to-return-home · Label: asked leave to return home to care for his mother / 以養母乞歸 · Other Person Id: Mother of Gao Shiqi (高士奇母) · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 三十六年 · Western Year: AD 1697
  Explicit · qingshigao:271:s0241
• Kind: career · Role: appointee · Action: did-not-assume-office · Label: did not take up Vice Minister of Rites because his mother was elderly / 以母老未赴 · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 三十六年 · Western Year: AD 1697
  Explicit · qingshigao:271:s0242
• Kind: political · Role: participant · Action: entered-inner-court-duty · Label: entered direct attendance in turn / 先後入直 · Other Person Id: Xu Qianxue (徐乾學)
  Explicit · qingshigao:271:s0255
• Kind: court · Role: escort · Action: met-and-accompanied-southern-tour · Other Person Id: Kangxi Emperor (聖祖) · Place: Huai'an to Hangzhou / 淮安至杭州 · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 四十二年 · Western Year: AD 1703
  Explicit · qingshigao:271:s0243, qingshigao:271:s0244
• Kind: official · Role: subject · Action: recalled-to-compile · Place: capital / 京 · Label: recalled to the capital to work on compilation / 召來京修書 · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 三十三年 · Western Year: AD 1694
  Explicit · qingshigao:271:s0239
• Kind: court · Role: subject · Action: received-in-audience · Other Person Id: Kangxi Emperor (聖祖) · Place: capital / 京師 · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 四十二年 · Western Year: AD 1703
  Explicit · qingshigao:271:s0244
• Kind: official · Role: subject · Action: sent-home · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 四十二年 · Western Year: AD 1703
  Explicit · qingshigao:271:s0249
• Relation: factional-ally-of · Person Id: Wang Hongxu (王鴻緒)
  Explicit · qingshigao:271:s0256
• Relation: factional-ally-of · Person Id: Xu Qianxue (徐乾學)
  Explicit · qingshigao:271:s0256

Assessments and attributes

• Assessment: ended with imperial favor and ritual honors—extraordinary fortune · Provenance: Mode: historian-judgment
  Explicit · qingshigao:271:s0257
• Assessment: had no battle achievements, yet was treated generously for scholarly service · Provenance: Mode: quotation · Speaker Person Id: Kangxi Emperor (聖祖)
  Explicit · qingshigao:271:s0248
• Assessment: relied on power, formed factions, accepted bribes, and pursued private gain · Provenance: Mode: historian-judgment
  Explicit · qingshigao:271:s0256
• Assessment: taught the emperor the true approach to learning and greatly advanced his scholarship · Provenance: Mode: quotation · Speaker Person Id: Kangxi Emperor (聖祖)
  Explicit · qingshigao:271:s0246, qingshigao:271:s0248

Source notes

• Historicity: historical
  Explicit · qingshigao:269:s0154