Gong Zhaolin 宮兆麟

Names

Identity

Historicity

Historical

Identification

Named

Sex

Male

• Sex: male
  Strongly inferred · qingshigao:337:s0002

Roles

• Official

Career and standing

• Office: Provincial Judge of Hunan / 湖南按察使 · Action: appointed · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 乾隆三十一年 · Western Year: AD 1766
  Explicit · qingshigao:337:s0128
• Office: Anlu Subprefect / 安陸通判 · Action: appointed
  Explicit · qingshigao:337:s0127
• Office: Governor of Guangxi / 廣西巡撫 · Action: promoted · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 乾隆三十三年 · Western Year: AD 1768
  Explicit · qingshigao:337:s0136
• Office: Provincial Treasurer / 布政使 · Action: promoted · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 乾隆三十三年 · Western Year: AD 1768
  Explicit · qingshigao:337:s0136
• Office: Shandong Grain Intendant / 山東糧道 · Action: promoted
  Explicit · qingshigao:337:s0127
• Office: Provincial Judge of Yunnan / 雲南按察使 · Action: transferred · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 乾隆三十二年 · Western Year: AD 1767
  Explicit · qingshigao:337:s0135
• Office: Governor of Guizhou / 貴州巡撫 · Action: transferred · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 乾隆三十五年 · Western Year: AD 1770
  Explicit · qingshigao:337:s0139
• Office: Governor of Hunan / 湖南巡撫 · Action: transferred
  Explicit · qingshigao:337:s0138
• Honor: third-rank insignia / 三品銜 · Action: bestowed · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 乾隆四十一年 · Western Year: AD 1776
  Explicit · qingshigao:337:s0154
• Action: demoted · Statement: summoned and demoted to provincial judge of Gansu · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 乾隆三十五年 · Western Year: AD 1770
  Explicit · qingshigao:337:s0152
• Action: dismissed · Statement: stripped of office for failing to detect a lead deficit · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 乾隆三十六年 · Western Year: AD 1771
  Explicit · qingshigao:337:s0153

Places and affiliations

• Polity: Qing / 清 · Relation: served
  Explicit · qingshigao:337:s0002
• Place: Huaiyuan, Jiangnan / 江南懷遠
  Explicit · qingshigao:337:s0126

Learning and skills

• Credential: Presented Scholar / 貢生 · Action: held
  Explicit · qingshigao:337:s0127

Works and attributed material

• Kind: memorial · Role: author
  Explicit · qingshigao:337:s0131, qingshigao:337:s0142, qingshigao:337:s0143, qingshigao:337:s0144, qingshigao:337:s0145

Events and relationships

• Kind: legal-investigation · Role: investigator · Action: exposed Hongsui's gold purchase and deficit cover-up · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 乾隆三十一年 · Western Year: AD 1766
  Explicit · qingshigao:337:s0133, qingshigao:337:s0134
• Kind: military · Role: commander · Action: joined Wu Dashan in suppressing the Tongzi and Dangdui rebellions · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 乾隆三十五年 · Western Year: AD 1770 · Other Person Id: Wu Dashan (吳達善)
  Explicit · qingshigao:337:s0140, qingshigao:337:s0141
• Kind: legal-investigation · Role: investigator · Action: reinvestigated Hou Qilang's homicide case and established the facts · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 乾隆三十一年 · Western Year: AD 1766
  Explicit · qingshigao:337:s0129, qingshigao:337:s0130, qingshigao:337:s0131, qingshigao:337:s0132
• Kind: military-logistics · Role: administrator · Action: supplied Yunnan camps with saltpeter and gunpowder · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 乾隆三十三年 · Western Year: AD 1768
  Explicit · qingshigao:337:s0137

Assessments and attributes

• Assessment: brash, boastful, and glib; nicknamed Iron Mouth · Provenance: Mode: named-source-report · Source Person Id: Guanyinbao (觀音保)
  Explicit · qingshigao:337:s0149
• Assessment: glib and ultimately unfit for frontier governance · Provenance: Mode: historian-judgment · Source Work: Draft History of Qing
  Explicit · qingshigao:337:s0225, qingshigao:337:s0229