Huang Chang (黃昌) | 24 Histories

Overview

The translated histories identify Huang Chang as an administrator, judge, and official. This record brings together 13 passages from 1 chapter across 1 history, with names, dates, relationships, offices, and events preserved as source-backed claims.

Names

Type	English	Chinese	Pinyin
Personal	Huang Chang	黃昌	Huang Chang
Alternate	Huang Chang	黄昌	Huang Chang
Courtesy	Shengzhen	聖真	Shengzhen

Identity

Historicity: Historical
Identification: Named
Sex: Male

Sex: male
Explicit · houhanshu:085:s0154

Roles

Administrator
Judge
Official

Life and dates

Death

Manner: died in office · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 汉安元年 · Regnal Year: 1 · Western Year: AD 142
Explicit · houhanshu:085:s0182

Attested activity

Source Date: Text: 汉安元年 · Reign: 汉安 · Regnal Year: 1 · Western Year: AD 142
Explicit · houhanshu:085:s0182
Source Date: Text: 永和五年 · Reign: 永和 · Regnal Year: 5 · Western Year: AD 140
Explicit · houhanshu:085:s0181
Source Date: Text: AD 126-142 · Western Interval: Start: AD 126 · End: AD 142
Explicit event contextual date · houhanshu:085:s0154

Family

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Spouse of Wife of Huang Chang (戴次公女)
Kinship Term: husband and wife / 夫妇 · Union Category: marriage · Relationship State: formed · Statement: reunited as husband and wife
Kinship Term: wife / 妻 · Union Category: marriage · Relationship State: ended

Career and standing

Label: Court Architect / 将作大匠 · Action: appointed · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 永和五年 · Regnal Year: 5 · Western Year: AD 140
Explicit · houhanshu:085:s0181
Label: Magistrate of Wan / 宛令 · Action: appointed
Explicit · houhanshu:085:s0159
Label: Grand Palace Counselor / 太中大夫 · Action: demoted-to
Explicit · houhanshu:085:s0182
Label: Minister of Agriculture / 大司农 · Action: promoted-to · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 汉安元年 · Regnal Year: 1 · Western Year: AD 142
Explicit · houhanshu:085:s0182
Label: Chancellor of Chen / 陈相 · Action: promoted-to
Explicit · houhanshu:085:s0176
Label: Prefect of Shu / 蜀郡太守 · Action: promoted-to
Explicit · houhanshu:085:s0162
Label: Prefect of Yingchuan / 颍川太守 · Action: promoted-to
Explicit · houhanshu:085:s0180
Label: Inspector's Aide / 从事 · Action: recruited
Explicit · houhanshu:085:s0158
Label: Prefect of Shu / 蜀郡太守 · Action: served · Duration Years: 4
Explicit · houhanshu:085:s0176
Label: Commandery Clerk of Decisions / 决曹 · Action: served
Explicit · houhanshu:085:s0157
Label: Prefect of Henei / 河内太守 · Action: transferred-to
Explicit · houhanshu:085:s0180
Status: poor and obscure origins · Action: born-into
Explicit · houhanshu:085:s0155

Places and affiliations

Polity: Eastern Han / 東漢 · Relation: served
Explicit · houhanshu:085:s0154
Place: Yuyao in Kuaiji commandery / 会稽余姚 · Relation: native-of
Explicit · houhanshu:085:s0154

Learning and skills

Subject: classical learning and academy ritual / 经学、庠序之礼 · Action: studied
Explicit · houhanshu:085:s0156
Skill: written law and precedent / 文法 · Level: mastered
Explicit · houhanshu:085:s0157

Works and attributed material

Kind: question · Role: speaker · Statement: Asked how she could recognize Huang Chang. · Other Person Id: Wife of Huang Chang (戴次公女) · Provenance: Mode: direct-quotation · Speaker Person Id: Huang Chang (黃昌)
Explicit · houhanshu:085:s0172

Events and relationships

Kind: mass-execution · Role: chancellor · Action: arrested, tried, and executed the Peng clan women for watching him from their tower
Explicit · houhanshu:085:s0177, houhanshu:085:s0178, houhanshu:085:s0179
Kind: bandit-suppression · Role: prefect · Action: coerced a captured bandit chief to list violent men and raided all of them
Explicit · houhanshu:085:s0165
Kind: collective-punishment · Role: magistrate · Action: raided the chief constable's home over a stolen carriage canopy and executed the entire household
Explicit · houhanshu:085:s0160
Kind: adjudication · Role: judge · Action: resolved more than seven hundred pending suits so all received due settlement
Explicit · houhanshu:085:s0164

Assessments and attributes

Assessment: caused hardened criminals to flee to other jurisdictions · Provenance: Mode: historian-judgment
Explicit · houhanshu:085:s0166
Assessment: powerful clans feared him and called him divinely perceptive · Provenance: Mode: public-reputation
Explicit · houhanshu:085:s0161
Kind: physical-description · Statement: black mole on the sole of his left foot
Explicit · houhanshu:085:s0173, houhanshu:085:s0174