Gong Xianglin (龔翔麟)

Overview

Gong Xianglin was an official and Censor.

Other names

Type	English	Chinese	Pinyin
Courtesy name	Hengpu	蘅圃	Hengpu

Life and dates

Death

Died shortly after retirement
Directly stated · Draft History of Qing 282, passage 279

Attested activity

AD 1694 康熙三十三年
Directly stated · Draft History of Qing 282, passages 249, 258
AD 1662 to AD 1722 康熙間
Dated from the passage context · Draft History of Qing 282, passages 278, 319, 322
AD 1644 to AD 1698 清初（本卷列傳同列人物）
Strongly inferred · Draft History of Qing 282, passage 3

Family

Immediate relationships attested in the translated histories.

Child of Gong Jiayu (龔佳育)
father 父
Directly stated · Draft History of Qing 282, passage 250

Career and standing

Shaanxi circuit censor 陝西道御史
AD 1694 康熙三十三年 · Appointed
Directly stated · Draft History of Qing 282, passage 258
inspector of the Western City 巡視西城
Appointed
Directly stated · Draft History of Qing 282, passage 259
Ministry of War secretary 兵部主事
Appointed
Directly stated · Draft History of Qing 282, passage 255
censor 御史
Held
Directly stated · Draft History of Qing 282, passage 278
Guangdong customs collector 榷廣東關稅
Posted
Directly stated · Draft History of Qing 282, passage 255

Places and affiliations

Polity Qing 清 · Relation Served
Strongly inferred · Draft History of Qing 282, passage 3
Polity Qing 清 · Relation Served
Directly stated · Draft History of Qing 282, passages 249, 255, 278, 322
At Renhe, Zhejiang 浙江仁和
Directly stated · Draft History of Qing 282, passage 249
At Guangdong 廣東 · Relation Posted to
Directly stated · Draft History of Qing 282, passage 255

Learning and skills

Held
Credential tribute student 副貢生
Directly stated · Draft History of Qing 282, passage 255

Works and attributed material

Impeached for clamoring and disrespect
Memorial · Author · With Zhao Liangdong (趙良棟)
Directly stated · Draft History of Qing 282, passages 271-275
Impeached for corrupting appointments
Memorial · Author · With Xiong Cilü (熊賜履)
Directly stated · Draft History of Qing 282, passage 277
Impeached for failing to mourn
Memorial · Author · With Zhang Yunyi (張雲翮)
Directly stated · Draft History of Qing 282, passages 268-269
Impeached
Memorial · Author · With Xiong Cilü (熊賜履)
Directly stated · Draft History of Qing 282, passages 261-265
Requested tax stations transferred to prefectures counties
Memorial · Author
Directly stated · Draft History of Qing 282, passage 258

Events and relationships

Criticized
Political · Critic · With Zhao Liangdong (趙良棟)
Directly stated · Draft History of Qing 282, passage 322
Criticized
Political · Critic · With Xiong Cilü (熊賜履)
Directly stated · Draft History of Qing 282, passage 322
Impeached Cilu and Zhao Shilin for corrupting appointment administration
Political · Impeacher · With Zhao Shilin (趙士麟)
Directly stated · Draft History of Qing 282, passage 277
Impeached for dismissal
Political · Impeacher · With Xiong Cilü (熊賜履)
Directly stated · Draft History of Qing 282, passages 261-265
Impeached over mourning
Political · Impeacher · With Zhang Yunyi (張雲翮)
Directly stated · Draft History of Qing 282, passages 267-269
Impeached
Political · Impeacher · With Zhao Liangdong (趙良棟)
Directly stated · Draft History of Qing 282, passages 270-275

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Requested retirement
Career · Retiree · After ten years as censor requested retirement; extremely poor yet austere bearing unchanged
Directly stated · Draft History of Qing 282, passage 278
Secured permanent law on tax collection
AD 1694 康熙三十三年 · Political · Reformer · Outcome Established as ordinance
Directly stated · Draft History of Qing 282, passage 258
Strictly prohibited extortion at coastal tax stations
Administrative · Customs official
Directly stated · Draft History of Qing 282, passages 256-257

Assessments and attributes

Assessment gained reputation for upright candor by criticizing powerful figures without avoidance · Mode historian-judgment
Directly stated · Draft History of Qing 282, passage 276
Assessment Remaining Upright; upright and devoted, unafraid of reputation and unbowed by power · Mode historian-judgment
Directly stated · Draft History of Qing 282, passage 322

Source notes

Historicity historical
Directly stated · Draft History of Qing 282, passage 3

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 · 9 passages

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沈愷曾龔翔麟高遐昌 Shen Kaiceng, Gong Xianglin, and Gao Xiachang

龔翔麟，字蘅圃，浙江仁和人。 Gong Xianglin, styled Hengpu, was from Renhe in Zhejiang.

翔麟自副貢生授兵部主事，出榷廣東關稅。 Xianglin entered service as a Ministry of War secretary after graduating as a tribute student, and was posted to collect Guangdong customs revenue.

翔麟嚴其禁，並移行府縣察究。 Xianglin rigorously enforced prohibitions against such abuses and circulated orders to prefectures and counties to investigate offenders.

翔麟疏劾：「賜履竊講學虛聲，前因票擬錯誤，嚼毀草簽，卸過同官。 Xianglin impeached him in a memorial: "Cilu cultivates an empty reputation as a scholar-official. When he once drafted a mistaken rescript, he chewed up the draft slip and shifted blame onto a colleague.

翔麟疏劾：「雲翮縱非李出，嫡母、繼母並製三年，豈可視為陌路？ Xianglin impeached him: "Even if Yunyi was not Lady Li's biological son, both birth mother and stepmother require three years of mourning—how can he treat them as strangers?

翔麟疏劾：「良棟效力行間，悉由皇上指授方略。 Xianglin impeached him: "Liangdong's battlefield service owed entirely to strategies assigned by the emperor.

賜履雅負清望，良棟功臣，雲翮功臣子，翔麟論列無所避，以是得直聲。 Though Cilu enjoyed a long-standing reputation for integrity, Liangdong was a meritorious general, and Yunyi the son of one, Xianglin criticized them all without hesitation and thereby earned a reputation for upright candor.

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?