Gao Xiachang (高遐昌)

Overview

Gao Xiachang was an official and Supervising Secretary.

Other names

Type	English	Chinese	Pinyin
Courtesy name	Zhensheng	振聲	Zhensheng

Life and dates

Death

Died before long after returning home
Directly stated · Draft History of Qing 282, passage 318

Attested activity

AD 1711 五十年
Dated from the passage context · Draft History of Qing 282, passages 306, 308
AD 1707 四十六年
Dated from the passage context · Draft History of Qing 282, passage 286
AD 1676 康熙十五年
Directly stated · Draft History of Qing 282, passage 281

Family

Immediate relationships attested in the translated histories.

Child of Father of Gao Xiachang (高遐昌之父)
father 父
Directly stated · Draft History of Qing 282, passage 283

Career and standing

acting prefect of Gaozhou 護高州知府
Acted as
Directly stated · Draft History of Qing 282, passage 284
supervising secretary in the Office of Scrutiny for Revenue 戶科給事中
AD 1707 四十六年 · Appointed
Directly stated · Draft History of Qing 282, passage 286
magistrate of Longyang County in Hunan 湖南龍陽知縣
AD 1676 康熙十五年 · Appointed
Directly stated · Draft History of Qing 282, passage 281
magistrate of Dongguan in Guangdong 廣東東莞知縣
Appointed
Directly stated · Draft History of Qing 282, passage 284
concurrent street administrator 兼管街道
Concurrently appointed
Directly stated · Draft History of Qing 282, passage 302
secretary in the Ministry of Justice 刑部主事
Promoted
Directly stated · Draft History of Qing 282, passage 285

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magistrate of Maoming 茂名
Served
Directly stated · Draft History of Qing 282, passage 284
magistrate of Xinyi 信宜
Served
Directly stated · Draft History of Qing 282, passage 284
director in the Ministry of Revenue 戶部郎中
Transferred
Directly stated · Draft History of Qing 282, passage 285
Arrested
AD 1711 五十年 · Imprisonment · Authority Tuoheqi (託合齊) · At Ministry of Punishments prison 刑部獄
Directly stated · Draft History of Qing 282, passage 308
Released
Release · Authority Kangxi Emperor (康熙帝)
Directly stated · Draft History of Qing 282, passage 316
Sentenced proposed
Capital sentence proposed · Bribery alleged; strangulation under illicit-gain statute proposed though confession showed no direct bribes
Directly stated · Draft History of Qing 282, passages 311-312
Sentenced proposed
Proposed exile · At Fengtian 奉天
Directly stated · Draft History of Qing 282, passage 310

Places and affiliations

Polity Qing 清 · Relation Served
Directly stated · Draft History of Qing 282, passages 280-281
At Qi County, Henan 河南淇縣
Directly stated · Draft History of Qing 282, passage 280
At Dongguan, Guangdong 廣東東莞 · Relation Posted to
Directly stated · Draft History of Qing 282, passage 284
At Gaozhou 高州 · Relation Posted to
Directly stated · Draft History of Qing 282, passage 284
At Maoming 茂名 · Relation Posted to
Directly stated · Draft History of Qing 282, passage 284
At Xinyi 信宜 · Relation Posted to
Directly stated · Draft History of Qing 282, passage 284

Learning and skills

Earned
AD 1676 康熙十五年 · Credential Presented Scholar 進士
Directly stated · Draft History of Qing 282, passage 281

Works and attributed material

Impeached
Memorial · Author · With Tuoheqi (託合齊)
Directly stated · Draft History of Qing 282, passages 288-299

Events and relationships

Abolished corrupt practices
Administrative · Reformer
Directly stated · Draft History of Qing 282, passage 303
Continued in charge
Administrative · Officeholder · After two terms still ordered to continue
Directly stated · Draft History of Qing 282, passage 304
Escorted from prison and aided
Personal · Beneficiary
Directly stated · Draft History of Qing 282, passages 316-317
Impeached
AD 1707 四十六年 · Political · Impeacher · With Tuoheqi (託合齊) · At Rehe 熱河
Directly stated · Draft History of Qing 282, passage 288
Left office for mourning
Ritual · Mourner
Directly stated · Draft History of Qing 282, passage 283
Petitioned tax reduction
Administrative · Petitioner · Petitioned to reduce military-colony taxes to civilian farmland rates
Directly stated · Draft History of Qing 282, passage 282

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Presented wrongful conviction statement
Legal · Defendant
Directly stated · Draft History of Qing 282, passage 313
Resisted
Political · Resister · With Tuoheqi (託合齊)
Directly stated · Draft History of Qing 282, passage 322
Relation Continued impeachment with · Person Wang Yide (王懿德)
Directly stated · Draft History of Qing 282, passages 288-289

Assessments and attributes

Assessment good reputation at each local post · Mode historian-judgment
Directly stated · Draft History of Qing 282, passage 284
Assessment integrity and ability known to the emperor; merited lenient treatment · Mode named-source-report Source Person Id Wang Yan (王掞)
Directly stated · Draft History of Qing 282, passage 314
Assessment Remaining Upright; upright and devoted · Mode historian-judgment
Directly stated · Draft History of Qing 282, passage 322

References in the histories

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History

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Draft History of Qing, Chapter 282Volume 282 Biographies 69: Jiang Xizhe, Yu Jin, De Ge Lei, Chen Zizhi, Ren Hongjia, Gao Cengyun, Shen Kaiceng, Gong Xianglin, Gao Xiachang · 12 passages

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高遐昌，字振聲，河南淇縣人。 Gao Xiachang, styled Zhensheng, came from Qi County in Henan.

上方幸熱河，遐昌詣行在繼劾之。 While the emperor was at his Rehe retreat, Xiachang traveled to the imperial lodge and submitted a follow-up impeachment.

今既累商民，即以遐昌兼管，期一年責以肅清。 Now that merchants and people had suffered enough, Xiachang was put in concurrent charge, with one year to restore order.

遐昌既任事，革除陋規，街道溝渠次第平治，兵民以安。 Once Xiachang took office he abolished corrupt practices; streets and drains were put in order, and soldiers and civilians lived in peace.

命尚書赫碩色等察勘，託合齊故引視僻巷，民居佔官街得三百餘間，謂皆遐昌任內所造，逮下刑部獄。 The emperor ordered Minister Hesose and others to inspect; Tuoheqi deliberately led them through secluded alleys, found more than three hundred dwellings encroaching on official streets, claimed all were built during Xiachang's tenure, and had him sent to the Ministry of Punishments prison.

乃議遐昌以官街邀民譽，應發奉天安置。 They then argued that Xiachang had used official streets to win popular praise and ought to be sent to Fengtian for resettlement.

託合齊黨复譁，言遐昌受賂。 Tuoheqi's faction clamored again, claiming Xiachang had taken bribes.

尚書王掞、李天馥謂遐昌廉能為上知，宜從寬典，富寧安讚之，獄乃緩。 Ministers Wang Yan and Li Tianfu said the emperor knew Xiachang's integrity and ability and he ought to receive lenient treatment; Funing'an agreed, and the case was slowed.

會託合齊以病乞假，隆科多攝其職，因言託合齊罔上行私，橫恣貪婪，及誣陷遐昌狀。 When Tuoheqi begged sick leave, Longkodo took over his duties and reported that Tuoheqi had deceived the throne, pursued private ends, acted violently and greedily, and had framed Xiachang.

上命釋遐昌，都人爭赴獄舁之出，擁赴闕謝。 The emperor ordered Xiachang released; capital residents rushed to the prison to carry him out and escorted him to the palace gate to give thanks.

遐昌歸，未幾卒。 Xiachang returned home and died before long.

若德格勒、紫芝、重光忤明珠，愷曾彈李光地，翔麟論熊賜履、趙良棟，遐昌抗託合齊，雖所糾繩賢不肖不同，謇謇匪躬，不為名懾，不為勢撓，謚為「遺直」，殆無愧歟？ Degele, Zizhi, and Chongguang offended Mingzhu; Kaiceng impeached Li Guangdi; Xianglin criticized Xiong Cilu and Zhao Liangdong; Xiachang resisted Tuoheqi—though their targets differed in worth, all were upright and devoted to duty, unafraid of reputation and unbowed by power; styled "Remaining Upright," can they scarcely be said to fall short of that title?